Food deserts are a myth. The idea has been so thoroughly debunked, I'm always surprised to see it pop up again. NYT gave it a hard look back when it was Michelle Obama's big project. TLDR, it's been well studied, and the available evidence showed that there is no statistical association between proximity to various food types and any measure of health.
Anecdotally this makes sense to me. I see lots of parents around me-- poor and moneyed, white and of-color-- teaching their kids to eat shit. The Standard American Diet is a plague on the entire nation, across all demographic lines.
TFA is about racial inequalities in treatment of diabetes and other chronic health problems. There's no need to further adorn this crisis with contrived issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of...
Anecdotally this makes sense to me. I see lots of parents around me-- poor and moneyed, white and of-color-- teaching their kids to eat shit. The Standard American Diet is a plague on the entire nation, across all demographic lines.
TFA is about racial inequalities in treatment of diabetes and other chronic health problems. There's no need to further adorn this crisis with contrived issues.