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Food deserts occur in poor urban areas with limited or no access to healthful affordable food options. [27] [28] Low income families are more likely to not have access to transportation so tend to be negatively affected by food deserts. [27] An influx of people moving into such urban areas has magnified the existing problems of food access. [29]
The 1995 South African Income and Expenditure Survey found an urban food insecurity rate of 27 percent, relative to the rural rate of 62 percent. [4] Later studies such as the National Food Consumption Survey of 1999 [5] and South African Social Attitudes Survey of 2008 independently assessed the urban food insecurity rate to be roughly half of that of the rural rate.
A longitudinal study of food deserts in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that supermarket availability is generally unrelated to fruit and vegetable recommendations and overall diet quality. [59] In a 2018 article in Guernica, Karen Washington states that factors beyond physical access suggest the community should reexamine the word food desert itself.
Democratic lawmakers said that part of the solution in fighting against diseases disproportionately affecting African Americans is by focusing on curtailing food deserts around the country. In a ...
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Book deserts are places where books are hard to come by. High schooler Rania Zuri started The LiTEArary Society, a charity in West Virginia, to fix them. What is a book desert?
White cites the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 2005–2006 to point out that 52.9% of black women are obese, compared to 37.2% of black men and 32.9% of white women due to phenomena like food deserts and food insecurity. Because the socioeconomic status of black communities in Detroit are a huge part of the food insecurity ...
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