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Food Deserts Leave Many Americans High and Dry

Where fresh foods are scarce, so is good health

FOOD DESERTS NYC: I used to live in a food desert in the South Bronx, NYC. It was easier to get a bacon, cheese, egg on a roll for breakfast from the local Indian deli than it was to find a supermarket with bacon, fresh eggs and real cheese. Fortunately I had the ability to grocery shop outside the neighborhood. But for thousands and thousands of people, especially those in the projects, that choice was not available. I read statements published by conservative or whatever politicians saying “food deserts don’t exist.” Well, they do. Look right in the backyard of New York City. 

Good piece from Scientific American below…

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Even within the borders of one of the world’s top agricultural countries, healthy food can be hard to come by. Many Americans reside in food deserts—communities where retailers offering fresh food are scarce but fast-food restaurants and convenience stores selling prepared foods can abound.

The top two maps at the right show the proximity of full-line grocers to two groups for whom healthy food is often difficult to procure: low-income households and those without access to a vehicle. Scientists are still exploring the links between food deserts and health by investigating how the nonavailability of fresh food may spur obesity, diabetes and other diet-related conditions. One 2006 study found an association between the presence of supermarkets and lower obesity rates. Convenience stores, on the other hand, were associated with higher rates.

“You always have to be careful about suggesting cause and effect,” says Mari Gallagher, whose Chicago consulting firm carries out case studies of local food environments. The relation between food and health is complex, and personal choice clearly plays a role. “But we do think that the environment, in a lot of different ways, matters,” Gallagher says. “You can’t choose healthy food if you don’t have access to it.”

Map linking food deserts to medical problems. 

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wilwheaton:

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Dear Mr. Wheaton

As a black bisexual woman I’m going to have to kindly ask you to STFU and worry about your own privileges, before calling anybody else out on their shit.

You have this Condescending Wonka joke on here and totally disregard all Black and other POC LGBT people and their families that are fighting hard for marriage equality and paying the price for it. You think this shit is funny? You consider this a fact? Yet where is your outrage at the many Black LGBT voices that are silenced in the LGBT community? I don’t seem to recall you using your voice to bring attention to Cece McDonald, I doubt you even know who she is.

How about, instead of reblogging asshole memes that are geared towards causing frictions between two oppressed groups while ignoring the intersections between them, you instead sit down and work out your own issues that you have with race, sex and class so you can become a well informed ally of these people. Because if this is how you plan to continue showing your support for marriage equality, I as both a bisexual and a black person do NOT want you speaking for me.

homophobia is bad, but this is such a red herring issue being used to throw focus away from the lobbying groups and groups with power, resources and leverage to actually get these discriminatory legislation on the ballot across the country. Institutional discrimination is always going to be fueled by those with power & privilege. always.

Wil Wheaton posted that?? Another reason to make shifty eyes at that guy.  Ugh. >.> 

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