Food Deserts

Joseph Erbentraut

WATCH: Mobile Farm Aims To Kickstart Second Annual Tour

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Chicago Kickstarters, Truck Farm Chicago Tour, Can They Kick It, Video, Truck Farm Chicago, Chicago Urban Farming, Food Education, Mobile Farm, Chicago Mobile Farm, Urban Farming, Mobile Farms, Chicago Impact, Food Deserts, Chicago News

Last year, Truck Farm Chicago was born. A mobile farm that travels to schools, festivals and farmers markets, Truck Farm Chicago brings urban agric...

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When I Was Fat: A Story Of Poverty

Ann Bauer | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Food Desert, Michelle Obama, Poverty, Obesity, Poverty Weight Gain, Poverty Food Deserts, Weight Loss, Wealth and Weight, Wealth Obesity, Poverty Obesity, Wealth Weight Loss, Poverty and Weight, Food Deserts, Healthy Living News
Ann Bauer

My turn at poverty was sudden and relatively brief. But I do know something about how living that way increases body mass and how seemingly impossible it is to turn the weight around.

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How to Address the Obesity Epidemic: Start Young

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Lunch Programs, Family Mealtimes, Childhood Obesity Epidemic, Snap, Childhood Obesity, Heart Disease, Healthy Eating, Healthy Lifestyle, Obesity-Related Illness, Obesity, Family Meals, High Cholesterol, Obesity Epidemic, F Healthy Behavior, Food Deserts, Healthy Living News
Linda Novick O'Keefe

Access to fresh groceries changed everything for Elijah and his mom. For many families in Los Angeles and other metro areas across the country, things are not as easy -- but they are getting better.

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Hunger in America

Christina Weiss Lurie | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Food Insecurity, Starvation, Sergio, Hungry in America, Inside Job, American Hunger, Food Deserts, Hunger in America, Impact News
Christina Weiss Lurie

I should have been prepared for the notion that hunger was prevalent here in the United States, but I wasn't. I was shocked to hear that a First World country had such an ignominious reality prevalent across all 50 states.

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No Simple Answers for a Complex Problem

Mike Curtin | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Food Desert, Hunger, Dc Food Deserts, Obesity, Food Access, Food Desert Obesity Link, Food Deserts, DC News
Mike Curtin

Food access is a complicated issue. While this web is as vexing as it is complex, it will not become less troublesome, tragic, or costly if we do nothing.

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Is There Really A Link Between Food Deserts And Obesity?

New York Times | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Urban Food Deserts, Obesity, Food Desert Obesity Link, Food Deserts, Food News

It has become an article of faith among some policy makers and advocates, including Michelle Obama, that poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, be...

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Jason Cherkis

Democratic Convention's Host City Boasts Anti-Union Rules, Packed Shelters, Food Deserts

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Unemployment, Homelessness, Democratic National Convention, Obama DNC, Charlotte-North Carolina, Charlotte-Dnc, Dccc, Bank of America, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Family Shelters, Dnc Charlotte 2012, Anthony Foxx, Barack Obama, Food Deserts, Politics News

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- If Whole Foods were to sell a city, the proposal might look like how local booster Dan Murrey pitches Charlotte. In Murrey's tellin...

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Growing Opportunity in New Orleans

Johanna Gilligan | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Grow Dat Youth Farm, New Orleans, Community Farm, New Orleans Food Deserts, Tulane University, Food Deserts, College News
Johanna Gilligan

At Grow Dat, we are in the business of giving young adults a chance: a chance to be employees at a job that supports their personal growth, and a chance to grow and eat food many of them can't even find in their neighborhood.

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Eco Etiquette: Being Black In The Green World

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Food Stamps, Pollution and Asthma, Antonio Villaraigosa, Green Advice, African American Issues, Urban Environmentalists, Broccoli City, Eco Etiquette, Green Living, Green Movement, Brandon McEachern, White Environmentalists, Van Jones, Hip-Hop Culture, Food Deserts, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. Hope you don't take offen...

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Public-private Partnership in California Tackles Obesity, Hunger Epidemics

Araceli Ruano | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Michelle Obama, Hunger, Obesity, The California Endowment, California Freshworks Fund, Healthy Eating, Healthy Food, Food Insecurity, Michelle Obama Food, Food, California Food Deserts, Food Deserts, Impact News
Araceli Ruano

California's Freshworks Fund serves as a model for an innovative public-private partnership loan fund with the potential to increase access to healthy and affordable food throughout the state.

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Want to Reduce Food Access While Killing Jobs? Open a Walmart

Michele Simon | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Jobs, Walmart, Workers, Food Access, Food Deserts, Food Politics, Food News
Michele Simon

I shudder to think of the consequences to America's already suffering urban populations if Walmart succeeds in duplicating its rural retail takeover.

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Alice Hines

Dollar Stores' Cheap Food Expansion Hits Not-In-My-Backyard Neighbors

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Family Dollar, Processed Food, Health Risks, Dollar Tree, Dollar Store, Dollar Store Earnings, Dollar General, Germantown, Food Deserts, Business News

With food prices rising and incomes going nowhere, dollar stores are thriving, luring squeezed customers -- many from the middle class -- with discoun...

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Wal-Mart's Coming to Town

Nick Wiseman | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Food Access, Washington DC, First Lady, Michelle Obama, DC Central Kitchen, Wal-Mart, Dc, Healthy Corners, Dc Impact, Food Deserts, DC News
Nick Wiseman

For Wal-Mart to grow, it has to turn to urban areas. Not because of some moral epiphany, but because of the bottom line. The "food deserts" Wal-Mart wants to occupy lie on top of deep reserves of customers.

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Finding More Purpose in Food

Cathy Erway | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Nutritious Food, Food Safety, Health Foods, Food Safety Modernization Act, Cooking Healthy, Healthy Cooking, Food Security, Food Deserts, Food News
Cathy Erway

When is a soup not a soup, in my humble opinion? I would say when it's made with dehydrated crystals of vegetable, meat, and monosodium glutamate, in a packet or bouillon cube.

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D.C. Central Kitchen Video Shows Off Its Healthy Corners Program (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Department of Agriculture, DC News, Video, District of Columbia, Dc Impact, Healthy Corners, D.C. Hunger Solutions, Usda, D.C. Central Kitchen, Food Deserts, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Earlier this summer, D.C. Central Kitchen launched its Healthy Corners program, which provides corner stores with low-cost fresh fruit a...

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New Law Will Increase Access to Healthy California Foods

John A. Perez | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: California Assembly, Food Deserts, California Agriculture, California Public Health, California Health Food Access, Health Food, American Food Deserts, California Food Deserts, Los Angeles News
John A. Perez

California's nutritional shortcomings extend beyond that of trans fat and caloric challenges, and into the disturbing realm of simple access to affordable, healthy food options.

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Michelle Obama Reveals Cookbook Plans

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Let's Move, Michelle Obama Cookbook, Michelle Obama Food Deserts, Michelle Obama Let's Move, American Grown, Michelle Obama, Video, Michelle Obama American Grown, Food Deserts, Food News

Michelle Obama may not be a chef, but we have a feeling that it won't matter. Michelle Obama's first cookbook, American Grown: How the White House Kit...

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Reports: Chicago Food Deserts Down 40 Percent

Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Chicago Farmers Markets, Food Stamps Program, Michelle Obama Fundraiser Chicago, Chicago Urban Farming, Food Stamps, Rahm Emanuel, Urban Farming, Farmers Markets, Chicago Food Deserts, Mari Gallagher, Snap, Mari Gallagher Food Deserts, Michelle Obama Chicago, Food Deserts, Chicago News

With First Lady Michelle Obama slated to appear in Chicago Tuesday for a fundraising event focused on addressing the city's food desert problem, a lea...

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In Light Of World Food Day, Help Fight Hunger In Your Own Backyard

Enid Borden | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Hunger, Nutrition, Food Prices, Food Insecurity, Food Deserts, Food Swamps, Hunger in America, Meals on Wheels, Poverty, Senior-Hunger, Meals on Wheels Association of America, Enid Borden, National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging, World Food Day, Fao, Impact News
Enid Borden

I always thought it was true, but it is appalling to see it for oneself. In my hands were two grocery items - one snack-sized cream filled yellow ca...

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Fishing on the Anacostia

Nick Wiseman | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Anacostia Restoration Plan, Anacostia River, Forgotten River, DC Real Estate, Washington Nationals New Stadium, Food Deserts, Anacostia River Cleanup Fund, DC News
Nick Wiseman

Not since the Anacostan Indians canoed these waters in the 17th century has there been such an upsurge in subsistence fishing. Some of D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods flank the river -- food deserts without access to healthy food.

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Can Walmart Solve America's 'Food Desert' Problem?

The Nation | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Walmart, Groceries, Nutrition, Obesity Epidemic, Grocery Stores, Walmart Fresh Food, Obesity, America Obesity, Food Deserts, Food News

On a map of “food deserts” in Chicago, a red bow-tie-shaped splotch covers parts of Englewood, a historically working-class neighborhood on the So...

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Kia Makarechi

Taking Aim At Low-Quality Food

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Healthy Food, Local Groceries, Urban Food Program, Sanson, Fresh Food, Good News, Food Deserts, Home Food Delivery, Case Western University, Organic Food, Local Food, Huffpost Greatest Person of the Day, Ian Wong, Cleveland, Food Delivery, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Case Western Reserve University, Freshbag, Impact News

You'd think an M.D./Ph.D. student at competitive medical schools would have his hands full with school, but Ian Wong isn't waiting until he's practici...

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Do You Live in a Food Desert?

Bill Davenhall | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Body, Local Food, Access to Healthy Food, Nutrition, Grocery Shopping Health, Usda, Healthy Food Access, Food Deserts, Healthy Living News
Bill Davenhall

If physical proximity to a grocery store (stocked with wholesome foods) is critical to getting and staying healthy, then it is crucial for us to find a way to be assured that grocery stores are located within easy reach -- both physically and financially.

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The Must-Have School Supply for Girls: Educational Access

K. Sujata | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Girls, Literacy, Education, Poverty, Rape, High Poverty Schools, Dating Violence, Teen Pregnancy, Chicago Food Deserts, Illinois Dream Act, Girls Education, School Bullying, Food Deserts, Chicago Impact, Chicago News
K. Sujata

Back-to-school chatter is already building in Chicago. However, in the discussion of education reform and politicking, one facet is missing: access.

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A Mobile Strategy for America's Eating Problem

Laurie M. Tisch | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Walgreens, Walmart, Nutritious Food, Michelle Obama, Food Stamps, Supervalu, Nutrition, Food Assistance, Ny Impact, Feeding America, Fresh Produce, Green Carts, Obesity, Food Deserts, New York News
Laurie M. Tisch

Rather than going hungry, millions of Americans are turning to calorie-dense fast food that won't break the bank. But programs that bring affordable, wholesome foods to neighborhoods that crave them are popping up everywhere.

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