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To Live Healthy, Make it a Habit

When it comes to living a healthy and active lifestyle, the math is simple: small choices add up. Eat healthy, exercise regularly and take time to rest, and you’ll be:

• Stronger in spirit: People who live a healthy lifestyle report greater happiness and overall well-being compared to those who don’t.
• Stronger in mind: When you improve your health through exercise and a good diet, your mind is sharper, you feel less stress and feel more relaxed (you even get a better night’s sleep)
• Stronger in body: People who live healthy stay healthy throughout the course of their life. They are also generally experience less pain, fewer illnesses and can live independent lives well into their golden years.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF TO LIVE HEALTHY

Challenge yourself to Develop Healthy Habits by signing up for Thrive, a set of free online healthy living challenges. Thrive rewards you for challenging yourself to take a few small but effective steps to:
• Make exercise a regular part of your life
• Build a healthy family home
• Get your proper rest and take time for yourself
 

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WHO WE ARE
For over 130 years, the YMCA of Middle Tennessee has been guided by its Christian mission and values to strengthen the foundations of our community and nurture the potential of the men, women and children who call our region home.

As a leading nonprofit dedicated to meeting community needs, we engage people across 12 counties, giving more than 329,000 of our neighbors—nearly half of them kids—the chance to learn, grow and thrive.

OUR MISSION
A worldwide charitable fellowship united by a common loyalty to Jesus Christ for the purpose of helping people grow in spirit, mind and body.

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