The 5 warning signs:
- 1 Fresh, quality produce + healthy food are hard to find
- 2 Junk food + fast food are way too easy to get
- 3 Supermarkets + grocery stores + farmers’ markets are MIA
- 4 Streets are overrun with small liquor + convenience stores that sell cheap, mostly processed food
- 5 Folks suffer high rates of overweight + obesity + chronic disease and die younger
than non-food desert residents.
Obama Administration Details Healthy Food Financing Initiative
February 19, 2010, from Press Room U. S. Department of the Treasury
All Aboard for Michelle Obama's Childhood Obesity Campaign
February 10, 2010 by Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times
Urban Food Deserts Threaten Children's Health
January 29, 2010 by Marian Wright Edelman, The Huffington Post
Michelle Obama Tackles Childhood Obesity
January 20, 2010 by Jodi Kantor, The New York Times: The Caucus blog
To Have Local Food, We Need to Support More Than Just The Farmers
January 11, 2010 by Steph Larsen, Blog for Rural America
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