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Old 02-21-2010, 05:09 PM
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First Lady: Just Say No to 'Food Deserts'

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First lady Michelle Obama wants to bring quality staples to the "food deserts" of America, telling Fox News host Mike Huckabee that part of her "Let's Move" campaign to reduce childhood obesity is to locate grocery stories that provide healthy food in underserved areas.

"There are places without access to grocery store. There were places we visited in Philadelphia they haven't had a grocery store in a decade," Michelle Obama said in an exclusive interview taped in Philadelphia for "Huckabee."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/21/just-say-food-deserts-lady-tells-huckabee/

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Old 02-21-2010, 05:15 PM
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What is a "food desert??"
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Old 02-21-2010, 05:22 PM
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It's a place that doesn't have any grocery stores.
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yes, here in l.a., in what we used to call "south central", but is now called "south l.a.", there few chain grocery stores before the riots ('92) and none after. took seven or eight years to get a company to come back.
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Schools used to be nutritional sink holes here in Hawaii. The schools would make a lot of money on vending machines that sold snacks and sodas. Eventually, they were forced to replace the soda and chips with water and juices that had less sugar and vending machines were restocked with lower calorie, higher fiber items.
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Old 02-21-2010, 06:43 PM
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Schools used to be nutritional sink holes here in Hawaii. The schools would make a lot of money on vending machines that sold snacks and sodas. Eventually, they were forced to replace the soda and chips with water and juices that had less sugar and vending machines were restocked with lower calorie, higher fiber items.
Even with a staff of 80 people the two vending machines in my old office used to bring in a healthy profit each month...I can only imagine what 12 of them in a school with hundreds of kids could bring in.....
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Funny, I was reading this as "food desserts" and was trying to figure out what kind of dessert is not food. I was thinking the First Lady must have misspoke.

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desert -- noun: an arid region with little or no vegetation

dessert -- noun: a dish served as the last course of a meal

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A food desert is a district with little or no access to foods needed to maintain a healthy diet but often served by plenty of fast food restaurants.

The concept of 'access' may be interpreted in three ways.

'Physical access' to shops can be difficult if the shops are distant, the shopper is elderly or infirm, the area has many hills, public transport links are poor, and the consumer has no car. Also, the shop may be across a busy road, difficult to cross with children or with underpasses that some fear to use because of a crime risk. For some, such as the disabled, the inside of the shop may be hard to access physically if there are steps up or the interior is cramped with no room for walking aids. Carrying fresh food home may also be hard for some.
'Financial access' is difficult if the consumer lacks the money to buy healthy foods (generally more expensive, calorie for calorie, than less healthy, sugary, and fatty 'junk foods') or if the shopper cannot afford the bus fare to remote shops selling fresh foods and instead uses local fast food outlets. Other forms of financial access barriers may be inability to afford storage space for food, or for the very poor, living in temporary accommodation that does not offer good cooking facilities.
Mental attitude or food knowledge of the consumer may prevent them accessing fresh vegetables. They may lack cooking knowledge or have the idea that eating a healthy diet isn't important.
In some urban areas, grocery stores have withdrawn alongside residents that have fled to the suburbs (see urban sprawl). Low income earners and senior citizens who remain find healthy foods either unavailable or inaccessible as a result of high prices and/or unreachable locations.

In rural areas, local fresh food outlets have closed leaving shoppers without cars in these areas with difficult access to healthy foods, as rural bus services have also declined. Whilst the idea of 'food deserts' in the early 21st century has mainly an urban flavour, the first case studies into difficulties faced by consumers accessing healthy foods were made in rural English villages. The Women's Institute looked at the plight of elderly car-less widows left stranded by closure of village shops and withdrawal of bus services as far back as the 1970s.
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I think some areas are deemed unsafe for business by the owners.
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Step one: Sell a grocery store chain to Koreans or Vietnamese.
Step two: Tell them to go to work.
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Cultural anthropologist studying American Samoa uniformly agree that the adoption of the "US/Western" diet and lifestyle has significantly affected the health and longevity of generations of Samoans since WWII.
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nobody's fault except the residents of underserved urban areas that food stores dont want to do business there. Who wants to be robbed and have employess threatened every day? clean up the neighborhood, and business will come back...
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nobody's fault except the residents of underserved urban areas that food stores dont want to do business there. Who wants to be robbed and have employess threatened every day? clean up the neighborhood, and business will come back...
What used to be common sense is now racism. And I believe Michelle will find a way to blame it on Bush!
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What used to be common sense is now racism. And I believe Michelle will find a way to blame it on Bush!
well....ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Grocers Association here said yesterday that former President George W. Bush will deliver the keynote speech at the association's 2010 Annual Conventional and Supermarket Showcase in Las Vegas in February.
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Schools used to be nutritional sink holes here in Hawaii. The schools would make a lot of money on vending machines that sold snacks and sodas. Eventually, they were forced to replace the soda and chips with water and juices that had less sugar and vending machines were restocked with lower calorie, higher fiber items.
When I was in school we had vending machines filled with candy and soda, but there wasn't a big problem with obesity. For various reasons kids today just lead a far too sedantary life. I blame a lot of the problem on computers. Reminds me of the comedian who said- "my kid wanted a new game that had more realistic graphics, trees, sky, etc so I told him we had that when I was a kid- we called it playing outside"!!
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Rural areas suffer far more than urban areas. There are whole towns in middle America where people have to drive 40 miles for their groceries.

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