Gallup: Beach Cities’ health indicators make big gains
Redondo Mayor Mike Gin and Councilman Matt Kilroy take part in one of the early Blue Zones “Walking School Bus” programs at Lincoln School in Redondo Beach two years ago. Photo According to the most powerful data gatherers in the world, Gallup, residents in the Beach Cities have in the last two years – since the arrival of the Blues Zones Project – made among the most dramatic and measurable health and well being improvements in the nation. Gallup unveiled new survey results before the Beach Cities Health District Board of Directors at its Jan. 31 meeting. Among the most striking of the gains revealed was an nearly 14 percent reduction in obese and overweight adults locally, or an estimated 1,645 fewer obese and more than 12,000 fewer overweight adults then in 2010. The findings were presented to the BCHD board by Dan Witters, chief research officer for Gallup’s Well Being Index, which polls 190 communities nationwide on health and well being measures. “The improvements are impressive and real,” Witters told the board. “And I congratulate you for it.” Witters noted that direct causality between the dramatic, across-the-board improvements and the Blue Zones Project initiative is…
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