{"id":173,"date":"2015-09-21T21:28:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/?p=173"},"modified":"2015-09-21T21:28:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:28:33","slug":"food-deserts-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/food-deserts-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Deserts in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past week in my Citizen’s Appetite RFT, my class watched a movie titled A Place at the Table<\/em> (2012). This movie made me realize how many food deserts exist in\u00a0the United\u00a0States even though this country produces more food than\u00a0it possibly needs. The standard definition for a food desert according\u00a0to Oxford Dictionaries\u00a0is an area where it is hard to have access to\u00a0and buy affordable or good-quality fresh food. A disturbing fact\u00a0that I learned is that 1\/6 Americans are reportedly hungry; this results in 50 million\u00a0Americans being hungry today. Every president has claimed that they would combat hunger and that we are growing as a\u00a0society but, the total number of Americans reportedly hungry has risen each year. The United States\u00a0sadly ranks the worst among the IMF Advanced Economy of food insecurity.<\/p>\n

Food deserts affect many low income areas throughout the United States and many people living in these areas are either having a hard time feeding there families or they are becoming obese. This is because food deserts consist mostly of Ma and Pa shops, which rarely sell any fruits and vegetables, and fast food restaurants. These places\u00a0mainly\u00a0sell cheap processed food’s made from corn; this leads to higher obesity rates. Americans buy these\u00a0food items because it is cheaper and also because\u00a0fruit and vegetable prices have risen. Many people have to either walk very far or spend\u00a0a lot of money to go to a supermarket that is out of town. These\u00a0barriers lead people to buy more processed foods and\u00a0their\u00a0health is affected as a result\u00a0of this. Research shows that not getting nutrition your first\u00a0three years of your life can\u00a0lead to neurological problems and\u00a0many other\u00a0lifelong risks\u00a0such as\u00a0diabetes. One last disturbing fact is that\u00a01\/3 three children\u00a0born\u00a0in the United States from the year 2000 will develop type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n

The movie A Place at the Table<\/em> (2012)\u00a0 has made me realize that not many people have access to the nutritious food that I eat every single day.\u00a0 Hunger\u00a0and failure to ingest\u00a0proper nutrition has lead to many health issues in a country that has more than enough food to feed its entire population.\u00a0As Americans in this great country we need to figure out a way reduce the number of hungry people in the United States and we find out\u00a0way to reduce the amount of food deserts.<\/p>\n

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