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An Apple a Day to Combat Obesity

Laurie M. Tisch | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Healthy Food, Vegetables, Local Food, Cdc, Childhood Nutrition, Urban Agriculture, Organic Food, Fruits, New-York-City-Food-Trucks, Food Deserts, New York News
Laurie M. Tisch

In New York, a unique private-public partnership is deploying specially-permitted street vendors selling only fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods with significant health problems

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Go Bananas During National Food Desert Awareness Month

Mari Gallagher | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Food, Health Policy, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Health, Food Politics, Food Access, Nutrition, Food Deserts, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

Fast, cheap and easy is not a porn film; it's the new American diet.

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In California's Central Valley: Rich Land, Poor Nutrition

npr.org | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Justice, Fresh Food and Cities, Central Valley California, Nutrition, Fast Food, Food Deserts, Food, Green News

California's Central Valley produces many of the fruits and vegetables consumed in America. It is also one of the poorest areas of the country....

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There's No Such Thing As "Convenience Food"

Grist | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Processed Food, Cooking Skills, Kitchen Illiteracy, Cooking, Food Deserts, Food, Green News

Among all the responses to the new data showing we're getting sicker and fatter, I was most struck by Kerry Trueman's comment at Civil Eats that what ...

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Pushing Produce into Urban Food Deserts

Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Local

Read More: Simplesteps, Fruit, Vegetables, Supermarkets, Underserved Neighborhoods, Diabetes, Obesity, Whole Grains, Lowfat, Nutritional Foods, Smartercities, Food Deserts, Local News
Wendy Gordon

New York City has approved 1,000 new mobile food carts for neighborhoods in the five boroughs that have long been isolated from traditional supermarkets, grocery stores and farmers' markets.

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It's Not That Easy Being Green

Mari Gallagher | Posted 06.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Food Deserts, Chicago Green Festival, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Health, Green Living, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

African Americans, on average, travel twice as far to reach a mainstream grocery store as they do a fast food restaurant and more are likely to suffer and die prematurely from diet-related diseases.

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Bronzeville Getting New Supermarket, Relief For 'Food Desert'

Chi-Town Daily News | LINDSEY REISER AND LEAH WESTFALL | Posted 04.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Roundy's Bronzeville, Roundy's, Bronzeville Supermarket, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Bronzeville, Food Deserts, Chicago News

{P]arts of the South Side, including Bronzeville, have been labeled "food deserts" because of the lack of supermarkets and other food sources. But t...

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The Politician Who's Ready to Reclaim Our Food Chain Now

Kerry Trueman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Michael Pollan, Growing Power, Mayor Bloomberg, Foodshed, Sustainability, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Will Allen, New York City, Food Deserts, Environment, Food, Green Living, Green News
Kerry Trueman

While Obama and Tom Vilsack have given lip service to the merits of Michael Pollan's proposals, our bold Manhattan borough president has been busy actively working to implement them.

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Fast, Cheap and Easy: How Fringe Food Hurts Public Health When it's the Only Choice

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Fringe Retailers, Fas Cheap and Easy, Fresh Food and Cities, Convenience Food Factor, Public Health, Food, Mainstream Grocers, Chatham Foods, Chicago Food Deserts, Fringe Food, Mainstream Food, Growing Power, Food Deserts, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

We consider a mainstream grocery store a place where you can support a healthy diet on a regular basis. A fringe food location is the opposite; it is not inherently bad, but when it's the primary food source, local diets and public health suffer.

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The Hidden Treasure of Organic Food ... For Some of Us

Alden Loury | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Healthy Eating, Food Allergies, Whole Foods, Organic Food, Food, The Chicago Reporter, Racial Disparities, African Americans, Food Deserts, Auburn Gresham, South Side Farmers Markets, Whole Food Chicago, Chicago Farmers Markets, Organic Food and Race, Chicago Food Deserts, Chicago News
Alden Loury

Grocery stores are pretty sparse in Auburn Gresham, where I live, and many other predominantly black communities on Chicago's South Side.

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Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Chicago Food Choices, Fresh Food and Cities, Food Choices, Poverty, Roseland, Public Health, American Food Deserts, Food Deserts, National Food Desert Awareness Month, Grocery Stores, South Side Food Desert, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Community Organizing, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.

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