Why food deserts abound. Surprise! Everyone hates broccoli!

 In inner cities and poor rural areas across the country, public health advocates have been working hard. Why?  to To turn around food deserts – neighborhoods where fresh produce is scarce, and greasy fast food abounds.

In many cases, they’re converting dingy, cramped corner markets into lighter, brighter stores.  that offer fresh fruits and vegetables.

In some cases, they’re building brand new stores.

To change inner city food habits they built stores that were attractive. 

“The presumption is, if you build a store, people are going to come,” says Stephen Matthews, professor in the departments of sociology, anthropology and demography at Penn State University.

To check that notion, he and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine recently surveyed residents of one low-income community in Philadelphia before and after the opening of a glistening new supermarket brimming with fresh produce.

What people actually eat:

 What they’re finding, Matthews says, is a bit surprising: “We don’t find any difference at all. … We see no effect of the store on fruit and vegetable consumption.”

Surprise!  Everyone hates broccoli.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/10/273046077/takes-more-than-a-produce-aisle-to-refresh-a-food-desert

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Firenze Sage, Esq.  As usual,  the Obamas are wrong.

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