Health and Wellness
Below are some must-know Hebrew terms for health and wellness, based on this conversation that takes place at an annual checkup:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] אישה – אני כל הזמן לא מרגישה טוב.
רופא – כמה שעות את ישנה
בלילה?
אישה – חמש או שש שעות, אבל אני לא ישנה כל כך טוב.
רופא – מה עם כושר?
את עושה התעמלות?
אישה – אני רצה לאוטובוס…
רופא – את אוכלת אוכל בריא?
אישה – בערך… אני אוכלת פלאפל, פיצה, שווארמה, אוכל מהיר. אני עובדת קשה מאוד!
רופא – לסיכום, את מנהלת אורח חיים לא בריא. בגלל זה את לא מרגישה טוב!
Woman – I’m constantly not feeling well.
Doctor – How many hours a night
do you sleep?
Woman – Five or six hours, but I don’t sleep so well.
Doctor – What about fitness?
Do you exercise?
Woman – I run to the bus…
Doctor – Do you eat healthy?
Woman – More or less… I eat falafel, pizza, shwarma, fast food. I work very hard!
Doctor – Basically, you lead an unhealthy lifestyle. That’s why you don’t feel well!
ביקור שנתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – annual visit
You may recognize the word ביקור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – a visit – from the tradition of ביקור חולים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – visiting the sick. שנתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] means yearly or annual, so that ביקור שנתי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] is an annual visit, usually to the doctor.
To say I don’t feel well, use אני לא מרגיש טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] if you’re male and אני לא מרגישה טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] if you’re female. The word מרגיש/ה comes from the root ר.ג.ש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] meaning feeling.
לא מרגישה טוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – don’t feel well
לאכול בריא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – to eat healthy
Before diets became a fad, they were simply a cultural practice. People in the Mediterranean ate healthy – אכלו בריא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – well before Weight Watchers or Atkins.
To eat healthy is לאכול בריא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /].
The catch-all Hebrew word for fitness is כושר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /]. You may recognize its root – כ.ש.ר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] meaning kosher, meaning fit to be eaten.
כושר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – fitness
שעות שינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – hours of sleep
How can we measure good rest? One way is to count the hours of sleep one gets – שעות שינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /]. Broken down: שעות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] is the plural of שעה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – hour, and שינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] is the noun form of לישון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Health-and-wellness-#.m4a” /] – to sleep.