The phrase "are encouraged to avoid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising or suggesting that someone should refrain from a particular action or behavior.
Example: "In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, individuals are encouraged to avoid excessive sugar consumption."
Alternatives: "are advised to steer clear of" or "are urged to refrain from".
Losers are encouraged to avoid polite society.
With their backs to one of the nation's most forlorn urban landscapes, the fronts -- devoid of windows -- look out on an ocean that gamblers are encouraged to avoid.
Students celebrate the changing of the seasons, practice eurythmy, a form a dance that supporters said helps students connect with the rhythms of nature, use watercolors as a means to control aggression, and are encouraged to avoid TV.
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Those who work as a factory laborers are encouraged to avoid night shifts.
Chronic carriers are encouraged to avoid consuming alcohol as it increases their risk for cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Better prepared prosecution cases also means fewer defendants being encouraged to avoid admitting their criminality.
They were encouraged to avoid commercially made cookies, cakes and pastries and to limit their consumption of dairy products and processed meats.
With the help of one of Stratton's ever-present, genial ambassadors near the base lodge, we were encouraged to avoid the Sun Bowl section because it was so, well, sunny (i.e., slushy).
Since then his administration has largely focused its policies on supporting small- and medium-sized businesses and on agriculture in the interior, where state police were encouraged to avoid confrontation in land seizures by the Landless Workers Movement.
"If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful reader is encouraged to imitate what is good; if it records evil of wicked men, the devout reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and perverse".
