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...food deserts.
Obama Once Needed 'to Take a Subway or a Bus Just to Find a Fresh Piece of Fruit’
Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and ObesityBarack Obama's vision as president is shaped by the fact that he knows what "it's like to take a subway or a bus just to find a fresh piece of fruit in a grocery store," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said last week.
Donovan seemed to be suggesting that the president had once lived in what First Lady Mic e Obama now refers to as a "food desert"--a place without a nearby supermarket. The First Lady has launched an initiative to eliminate these places.
Message fail.It has become an article of faith among some policy makers and advocates, including Mic e Obama, that poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, bereft of fresh fruits and vegetables.
But two new studies have found something unexpected. Such neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets and full-service restaurants, too. And there is no relationship between the type of food being sold in a neighborhood and obesity among its children and adolescents.
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Quote-But two new studies have found something unexpected. Such neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets
Wondering if they took into account South Central LA…To get one major chain Supermarket to move back into the area they needed to place a police station in the same gated parking lot…
That's ridiculous.Quote-But two new studies have found something unexpected. Such neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets
Wondering if they took into account South Central LA…To get one major chain Supermarket to move back into the area they needed to place a police station in the same gated parking lot…
Perhaps the good and decent people of South Central LA should become "chronically homeless" in San Diego.
tell us everything you know about section 8 housing.
Stop yelling at white people!
Downtown San Antonio is most definitely a food desert, imo.
Closest grocery store I can think of to the downtown area might be the Central Market at Broadway/Hildebrand........which is where San Antonio's less fortunate like to shop. (/blue)
Actually, Walgreens has started filling that niche to a certain extent. Not full service, of course, but carrying some basics, anyway.
they got skittles?
At least Mooo-c e went with the science of "food deserts", rather than being Repug science-denier.
Let's see if she follows these findings.
I congratulate Yoni on yet another huge, fatal ankle bite.
damn straight.
Arizona tea, too.
I like going there at times for milk because it's fast to get in/out, but the next time I see Walgreens carrying fresh fruit will be the first.
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