Gallup and Healthways (HWAY) Announces First Y/Y Decline in Obesity Scores Since 2008

Gallup and Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) today released findings from the monthly Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index for August 2011. The overall Well-Being Index composite score remains relatively high at 66.1.

This is the first year-over-year obesity scores have declined since measurement began in 2008. The obesity score was at 25.9% in August, continuing a slow trend in obesity reduction nationally over the course of 2011.

Key Findings:

• In the Physical Health Index, the percentage of respondents who said they felt well-rested yesterday fell nearly two points to 69.0% in August, the lowest level in 12 months. The overall PHI score inched up to a typical 77.5 in July and stayed there at 77.3 in August.

• The Work Environment Index, which hasn’t been above 49.0 since September 2009, remained low at 47.1 in August, its third-lowest rating since the inception of the WBI. The lowest scores in successive measurement have come in the last seven months.

• The Life Evaluation Index dropped to 47.6 in August, the lowest since July 2009. The 51.5% of Americans that are Thriving is also the lowest since August 2009, and the 4.0% that are suffering is the highest since the 5.1% measured in March 2009.

• The Basic Access Index was close to a recorded low at 81.9 in August as 4.1 million fewer American adults reported easy access to fresh produce than one year ago.

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