{"id":32271,"date":"2011-01-16T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32271"},"modified":"2013-11-19T04:33:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:33:47","slug":"food-deserts-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/16\/food-deserts-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Deserts in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “food desert” was coined to draw attention to the fact that some people live far from a source of healthy, affordable food. \u00a0For these people, compared to those with easier access, consistently eating fresh fruit and vegetables and avoiding convenience store and restaurant food is more difficult. \u00a0Food deserts are more often found in poor neighborhoods, which is part of why the poor are more likely than people of other socioeconomic classes to be overweight and obese.<\/p>\n

Over 2 percent of U.S. households, 2.3 million, live at least one mile from a grocery store and do not have a car (USDA<\/a>). \u00a0The map below depicts the percent of such households by county. \u00a0In the darkest counties, over 10 percent of the households are isolated in a food desert:<\/p>\n

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See also Satter’s Hierarchy of Food Needs<\/a> and the Last Sideshow Fat Man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via Slate<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The term “food desert” was coined to draw attention to the fact that some people live far from a source of healthy, affordable food. \u00a0For these people, compared to those with easier access, consistently eating fresh fruit and vegetables and avoiding convenience store and restaurant food is more difficult. \u00a0Food deserts are more often found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,341],"class_list":["post-32271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-ruralurban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32271"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59249,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271\/revisions\/59249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}