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[Dr. Helen] Lee also notes in her study that, on closer inspection, food deserts don*t actually exist in the U.S., at least not as a national problem*on average, poor neighborhoods have more grocery stores than wealthier neighborhoods. Even before Obama*s Healthy Food Financing Initiative was announced in 2010, studies suggested that the food desert explanation for obesity wasn*t right. A report from Department of Agriculture researchers presented to Congress in 2009 also showed more grocery stores in poor neighborhoods. In 2012, USDA researchers crunched the data again and found once more that low-income neighborhoods had more*not fewer*grocery stores.
I can go on. For pages.
http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/11/sev...ths/index.html
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Obesity levels don*t drop when low-income city neighborhoods have or get grocery stores. A 2011 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed no connection between access to grocery stores and more healthful diets using 15 years* worth of data from more than 5,000 people in five cities. One 2012 study showed that the local food environment did not influence the diet of middle-school children in California. Another 2012 study, published in Social Science and Medicine, used national data on store availability and a multiyear study of grade-schoolers to show no connection between food environment and diet. And this month, a study in Health Affairs examined one of the Philadelphia grocery stores that opened with help from the Fresh Food Financing Initiative. The authors found that the store had no significant impact on reducing obesity or increasing daily fruit and vegetable consumption in the four years since it opened.
Nor would the solutions to a problem that does exist help it.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...t-be-deserted/
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Originally introduced by British politicians in the 1990s, the concept of a food desert has been a popular way to approach food insecure regions in the United States for over a decade. It has been embraced by politicians, celebrities, chefs, and other influential leaders. Despite this trend, the term *food desert* and efficacy of the interventions to combat them have been questioned in recent years.
Highlighting how malnutrition and food insecurity results from more than geographical access, their research found the introduction of a grocery store in the area did not have a significant impact on fruit and vegetable consumption. Further, there was an increase in the amount of prepared and fast foods consumed during the 17 months the grocery store was open.
Do you want a wall of text? I can do that, because there is a lot of data that shows this theory from the UK in the 1990s is busted.
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also remember, republicans have known the full extent to trump's crimes and links to russia since early 2016, and even before. they don't care.
They don't care about the things you guys sure think they care about. And truth be told, I suspect this will be bunk like most of the other stuff. Rumors and hints yet after a year nothing much really. There should have been something more by now. Maybe. We will see.