Be Healthy Dixie
Be Healthy Dixie is a program designed to encourage local residents to integrate a healthy lifestyle into their daily routine and to raise awareness of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
Mission Statement:
The City of St. George and local organizations will strive to increase the community awareness of the benefits of actively pursuing a healthy lifestyle and to create an overall attitude of health in the community.
Why is Be Healthy Dixie Important:
- Over half of all Utah adults are overweight or obese.
- Only one out of five Utah adults eat five or more fruits and vegetables each day.
- Almost 50% of Utah adults get insufficient physical activity.
- About 17% of Utah adults report no leisure time physical activity.
- In 2006, 22.5% of all elementary students were at an unhealthy weight.
- More boys were overweight at every Grade.
- In 1994, 16.9% of 3rd Graders were at an unhealthy weight.
- In 2006, 21.8% of 3rd Graders were at an unhealthy weight.
This represents a 67% increase.
If the number of elementary school students at an unhealthy weight continues to increase at the current rate, in ten years a total of 30.3% of elementary school students will be at an unhealthy weight.
Statistics from Utah Department of Health website