salubrious
adjective

- describes a place that is pleasant, clean, and healthy to live in

- conducive or favorable to health or well-being

The Cambridge Dictionary / The American Heritage Dictionary

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WORD ORIGIN

“Salubrious” comes from the Latin salubris, meaning “healthful” or “promoting well-being,” which itself stems from salus (“health,” “safety,” “welfare”,  or "greeting"—as in salute). The word entered English in the 16th century, originally describing foods or medicines but quickly expanding to reference climates, places, or lifestyles believed to support health.

Roman physicians like Celsus used salubris for curative airs in *De Medicina* (1st century AD), contrasting urban miasmas. It filtered through French salubre into scholarly texts, but gained footing in English spa pamphlets of the 1600s promoting Bath's waters as "salubrious." Early spellings like salubrius simplified by the 1700s, when travel writers applied it to Swiss valleys versus London's fog. Victorian hygienists wielded it in reform tracts, tying clean air to moral fiber, its Latin wellness core expanding from bodily cures to environmental praise.

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THE VALUE OF WELLNESS

The global wellness economy was valued at $4.9 trillion in 2019 and then fell to $4.4 trillion in 2020, due to the widespread impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As we emerge from the pandemic, GWI predicts that the wellness economy will return to its robust growth. We project 9.9% average annual growth, with the wellness economy reaching nearly $7.0 trillion in 2025.

The Global Wellness Institute (GWI)

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HOW MONACO BECAME THE GAMBLER’S MECCA

One day in the mid-19th century, when the tiny principality of Monaco was nearly bankrupt, Princess Caroline, wife of the hapless Prince Florestan of the ruling Grimaldi family, had a clever idea.

Amid rumours that gambling might soon be outlawed in the landlocked spa towns of Germany, Caroline persuaded her husband to legalize it, and they hurriedly built a casino in Monte Carlo.

Meanwhile, they took a different cue from the French Riviera, which for a time had been attracting the rich with the promise that the warm and salubrious Mediterranean airs would cure such ailments as “tuberculosis, weak nerves, obstructed perspiration, bad circulation, chest pain, general weakness, faintness, low spirits, fever, and loss of appetite”.

Though the sales pitch was health, vice was the true attraction. Monaco was soon thriving and a new age of hedonism at the seashore had begun.

Helga & Paul Smith

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SYNONYMS

- healthy or health-giving to the body or mind:

beneficial, bracing, cleansing, clear the cobwebs air, curative, curing, energy-giving, good for health, good for you, healing, health-giving (-promoting), invigorating, palliative, pick-me-up, recuperative, reformative, rehabilitative, rejuvenating, remedial, restorative, SALUBRIOUS, shot in the arm, therapeutic(al), uplifting, vitalizing, wellness-enhancing, what the doctor ordered

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SMUGGLE
 OWAD into a conversation today, say something like:

“How about a relaxing weekend in a SALUBRIOUS hotel on the coast?”

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