“Joe wanted to find a way to adopt/ embrace/take up/take / healthy eating.” ”

• adopt – to take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent

• embrace – to adopt or support willingly or eagerly

• take up – to develop an interest in or enter into: take up mountain climbing,

walk, climb, cycle, cycle, take a hike, climb, swim, climb rope, go mountain biking and climb trees.

The term internalize is used in that sense.

“Joe wanted to find a way to internalize healthy eating. We all wanted to be healthy. I can’t think of another idea. He has no ideas, but he does know the ways around everything.” ODO:

internalize VERB” Use
example : Google search for “internalize healthy eating” (158 results at the time

of

posting)
ODO:

1 Psychology
Make (attitudes
or behaviors) part of one’s nature by learning or unconscious assimilation.

“At the moment many people has internalised corrupt behaviour as normal in their daily lives. “,

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How

can I habitualize Not yet enough in all the dictionaries? I don’t have anything that shows up in exactly this meaning on Google’s NGram in detail. I’ve not found out, but I do have it. I don’t want to make a habit of it.

But! but! OED to the rescue. Is habitual derivative of habitual?

habitualize v..: HABITUALIZE v. HATABITUALIZE.H.bitualizing Do you render habitual?

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 44 With the sole expectation of rivetting and habitualizing the trois virtues thereby in our hearts.

Is it possible to regularize? Why does Habitualize fail?