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Healthier Tennessee is a movement to encourage and enable us to improve our state’s health. It’s a call to come together as proud Tennesseans—citizens, employers, schools, and congregations. We believe that, as a community, we can reach our shared goal of a healthier state.

This effort is led by Governor Bill Haslam and made possible by The Governor’s Foundation for Health and Wellness, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to enabling and encouraging Tennesseans to lead healthier lives. The foundation is funded through a combination of public and private-sector sources and is guided by an independent board of directors.

Small changes today can lead the way to a healthier tomorrow. Get started today by downloading the Small Starts mobile app.

WELLNESS: A state of being self-aware, where one actively seeks and makes positive choices leading to optimal health with a balance of the mind, body, and spirit.

Wellness is a conscious, self-directed process continuously evolving to ultimately reach one’s full potential.

It is holistic and multi-dimensional; encompassing lifestyle, environmental, emotional and spiritual well-being.

Wellness is always positive and affirming.

HEALTH: (World Health Organization definition) “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely an absence of disease or infirmity.”

^{Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948.}

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