title:  This is the word 'wellness'. 
At first I just assumed it was coined by some guru in an 80's infomercial. I was off by a few decades. And not a guru but the father of modern health statistics, Halbert L. Dunn M.D., the Mayo Clinic's first biostatistician (1929).
He introduced this word during a series of lectures in the 50's in Virginia and wrote the book in 1961. It caught on by the 70's and as you can see, it spread internationally. Ask anybody and you'll get different answers but it's meant to be a cross between health and well-being (the opposite of illness, of course). But it has frequently been reduced to meaning anything including cosmetics. At this point perhaps you could even include public health or even welfare which is a controversy itself. Wikipedia redirects you to health by default but also directs you to him and his idea, which has influenced the subsequent holistic movement and as a general concept has become a way of life despite the nebulous definitions. In the case of this video, it is a lot more than a giant gym, Which is a win-win. According to www.definitionofwellness.com/ the dimensions of wellness are: 1. Social Wellness
2. Occupational Wellness
3. Spiritual Wellness
4. Physical Wellness
5. Intellectual Wellness
6. Emotional Wellness
7. Environmental Wellness
8. Financial Wellness
9. Mental Wellness
10. Medical Wellness
In all cases it is a synonym for health. I can live with that.

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