healthy vs healthily

[rafanadal]

Hi everyone.
Which is preferable?
"I eat healthy" or "I eat healthily"?

 

[Thomas Tompion]

Hi everyone.
Which is preferable?
"I eat healthy" or "I eat healthily"?

Healthily is an adverb, which is what you want. I eat healthy is incorrect.

 

[rafanadal]

Thank you. I asked because I found so many "I eat healthy" on Google but, we all know, Google hosts so many cowboys.

 

[cyberpedant]

Although TT is absolutely correct, most AE speakers, even those of us who hang out in upscale, intellectual health-food coöps, would say "I eat healthy." At this point it is still an "acceptable error" (of which there are a great many in AE).