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Avec l’âge mieux, il vaut mieux : bien s’alimenter

English translation: As you get older, eat healthy

14:11 Aug 11, 2002
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Medical
French term or phrase: Avec l’âge mieux, il vaut mieux : bien s’alimenter
In a book about eating healthy.

Is this a good translation into English?

"Eat Well as Age Advances"
Maria
English translation:As you get older, eat healthy
Explanation:
considering the title of the book...
that is my suggestion
Selected response from:

Peter Bagney
Spain
Local time: 07:41
Grading comment
Thank you! This seems to work really well.

Maria
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +3As you get older, eat healthy
Peter Bagney
5 +1Eat Better and Age Better ; Eat Better to Age Better
Diane Fontainebleau Pochй
4 +2Healthy eating for a ripe old age
jerrie
5Eat well/right/healthy as you age/mature
MafaldaDec
5As we become older it is important to pay attention to what we eat.
Deborah James
5As one gets older, it's better to eat well.
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
4If getting older means getting better, eat well!
PaulaMac (X)
4As we grow older, proper/good nutrition is recommended
sktrans


  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
As you get older, eat healthy


Explanation:
considering the title of the book...
that is my suggestion

Peter Bagney
Spain
Local time: 07:41
PRO pts in pair: 219
Grading comment
Thank you! This seems to work really well.

Maria

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
2 mins
agree  Florence Bremond
39 mins
disagree  Jennifer White: surely the word is HEALTHILY? "healthy" is an adjective.
1 hr
  -> adjective it may be, but marketing reigns supreme...see 44K examples on Google
agree  DPolice: "healthily" whatever Google may say
1 hr
  -> in a complete sentence, I agree that healthily could fit better. But this seems to be a title (of a chapter perhaps), and healthy has more "zing"
disagree  Deborah James: not eat healthy/ or eat healthily-age to eat healithy also means to eat lots ! not necesseraly healthy foods
4 hrs
  -> ??????
agree  Yolanda Broad: This is a perfectly good way to phrase this. Deborah James is confusing "eat heartily" (= a lot) and "eat heathly" (a proper diet). But where does this French text come from!!!???
5 hrs
  -> thx fr yr comment, though just what is "heathly"?
agree  Gina W: Jennifer White, no one uses the word "healthily" in English, and thus it sounds awkward even if it is technically correct
23 hrs
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Eat well/right/healthy as you age/mature


Explanation:
or:

Eat well/right/healthy as you get older (less elegant)

By slightly changing the meaning you could say:

Eat well to age well
The importance of healthy eating habits in ageing (in the ageing process sounds too medical to me)

HTH


MafaldaDec
Italy
Local time: 07:41
Native speaker of: Italian
PRO pts in pair: 19
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Eat Better and Age Better ; Eat Better to Age Better


Explanation:
Is this a title or subtitle?
If so, I hope this is short and accurate enough for your needs.
Plus, I think 'eat healthFULLY' is the correct grammatical form, even though nobody says it.

Diane Fontainebleau Pochй
United States
Local time: 22:41

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  evelyn evans
20 hrs
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Healthy eating for a ripe old age


Explanation:
Eat well, age well, all goes well.

Few more ideas

jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 77

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sue Crocker
4 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  Gina W: Yeah, I like that "Eat well..." - sounds catchy.
18 hrs
  -> Thanks
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
As we become older it is important to pay attention to what we eat.


Explanation:
no explanation

Deborah James
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:41
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
As one gets older, it's better to eat well.


Explanation:
bien s'alimenter is to eat well. There is nothing about healthy in the sentence even if that is what is implied.
At a stretch, you could say: As one gets older, it's better to eat healthy food. depending ont he rest of the paragraph.

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in pair: 8576
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
If getting older means getting better, eat well!


Explanation:
Suggestion - avoids that whole healthy/healthily/healthful/healthfully trap!

PaulaMac (X)
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
As we grow older, proper/good nutrition is recommended


Explanation:
"alimenter" est traduit par "pourvoir ce qui est necessaire au fonctionnement"
C'est pouquoi j'ai choisi:nutrition
"il vaut mieux" veut dire "il est préférable, il est plus avantageux" donc il n'y a pas une notion d'impératif c'est plutôt une suggestion, c'est pouquoi j'ai choisi: recommended (as if nudging people to make the proper food choices)


    Larousse
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Local time: 01:41
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 773
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