Food Deserts - Issues

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1. About Food Deserts - 100 words
2. Issue 1 - 150 words
3. Issue 2 - 150 words
4. Conclusion - 100 words

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Food Deserts - Issues

What is a food desert? According to the USDA (2014), "Food deserts are defined as parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers' markets, and healthy food providers." The American Nutrition Association (2014) meanwhile explain that food deserts, "has become a big problem because while food deserts are often short on whole food providers, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, instead, they are heavy on local quickie marts that provide a wealth of processed, sugar, and fat laden foods that are known contributors to our nation's obesity epidemic. The food desert problem has in fact become such an issue that the USDA has outlined a map of our nation's food deserts..." According to the Economic Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (FEP, 2014), ...