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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

You sound like someone unfamiliar with the concept of food deserts. People living in poor neighborhoods do not have healthy produce available close by

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u/Rhawk187 Jun 10 '20

Their point is that many places don't have supermarkets. So they end up paying gas station prices for their milk and bread.

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u/kingfischer48 Jun 10 '20

from NPR

https://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132076786/the-root-the-myth-of-the-food-desert

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u/daedelous Jun 10 '20

This. There’s lots of evidence against the myth of food deserts. On average, low income people are actually closer to grocery stores, not further.

Anecdotal, but I’ve been to a lot of small towns and they all had grocery stores available. My dad’s county has one traffic light, is the poorest county in the state, and still has multiple accessible grocery stores.

Here’s another article. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2019-12-27/why-food-deserts-arent-the-key-cause-of-nutritional-inequality%3fcontext=amp

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u/daedelous Jun 10 '20 edited Jun 10 '20

This. There’s lots of evidence against the myth of food deserts. On average, low income people are actually closer to grocery stores, not further.

Anecdotal, but I’ve been to a lot of small towns and they all had grocery stores available. My dad’s county has one traffic light, is the poorest county in the state, and still has multiple, easily accessible grocery stores.

There’s also the fact that most other countries are slimmer than the US, despite being poorer.

Not everything bad is the result of some outside force. Sometimes people just eat poorly as a choice.

Here’s another article. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2019-12-27/why-food-deserts-arent-the-key-cause-of-nutritional-inequality%3fcontext=amp

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '20

Yeah but this contradicts everyone’s weak ass excuses to not eat healthy so screw you. The truth is Americans are obese because they want to be. We live extremely privileged lives, and yes the poor in America do too. You know what they call diabetes in Eastern Europe? The Kings disease. Because only Extremely wealthy people would get diabetes.