| Food deserts are a non-problem arising almost entirely from lack of demand for healthy produce. > Neighborhood Food Outlets, Diet, and Obesity Among California Adults, 2007 and 2009 > Food outlets within walking distance (≤1.0 mile) were not strongly associated with dietary intake, BMI, or probabilities of a BMI of 25.0 or more or a BMI of 30.0 or more. https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2013/12_0123.htm > The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States > Using a structural demand model, we find that exposing low-income households to the same availability and prices experienced by high-income households reduces nutritional inequality by only 9%, while the remaining 91% is driven by differences in demand. https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/AllcottDiamondDube_FoodDe... The most energy and carbon efficient way of providing produce is to grow it where it’s easiest to do so and transport it to where there are consumers who want to buy it. |