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FOOD DESERTS DEFINED
• Urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready
access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food
• Identified in two ways:
1. Low-income
2. Low-access
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LETS TALK ECONOMICS
• Demand – Income, prices, time-cost
• Supply – Input costs
• Market
• Lower demand results in lower costs
• Higher demand results in higher costs
• In underserved areas this reverses
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HARMFUL TO HEALTH
• Heart Disease
• #1 cause of death for men and women in America
• Causes heart attacks and strokes
• Prevention: No smoking, eating diet low in fat and
sodium, exercise.
• Stroke
• #3 cause of death for women
• Prevention: No smoking, losing excess weight,
exercise, healthy diet.
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• Diabetes
• A leading cause of death for men and women
• Can cause kidney damage, heart disease, and
blindness.
• Prevention: Losing excess weight, exercise, healthy
diet.
• Kidney Disease
• 9th leading cause of death for men and women in
America
• Caused by high blood pressure and diabetes
• Prevention: Keeping blood sugar under control
HARMFUL TO HEALTH, CONTINUED
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BOSTON, MA
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COLUMBUS, OH
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STOCKBOX GROCERS
• Started by students at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute
in Seattle, Washington.
• Converts reclaimed shipping containers into miniature
grocery stores
• Promotes access to fresh foods
• Reduces overhead and operating costs
• Downfall: Trouble finding customers. Gives access but
doesn’t change habits.
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BUS MOUNTED GROCERY BIN
• Created by a student at The Ohio State University in
Columbus, OH
• Container mounted to buses to keep groceries at
needed temperature
• Gives riders a place to hold their groceries
• Replaces theft of stolen grocery carts
• Downfall: Only holds groceries of 3-4 people at a time.
Costs upwards of $1300 per mounted cooler.
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PROVIDING FREE COOKING CLASSES
• Providing healthy food options doesn’t mean the
community will take them, or know what to do with them.
• Free cooking classes could help community members
make healthier choices
• U.S. Department of Agriculture provides free cooking
classes to women in the WIC (Women, Infants, and
Children) program in Chicago
• Downfall: Can’t force people to attend, or can you?
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REFERENCES
• A Start-Up Tries to Eliminate 'Food Deserts' (2011, November
1). Retrieved February 25, 2015.
• Agricultural Marketing Service - Creating Access to Healthy,
Affordable Food. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2015.
• Badger, E. (n.d.). One Small Solution for Food Deserts: The
Bus-Mounted Grocery Bin. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
• In a Food Desert, Cooking Classes Are Welcome, If Not
Crowded - North Lawndale - DNAinfo.com Chicago. (n.d.).
Retrieved February 25, 2015.
• National Poverty Center | University of Michigan. (n.d.).
Retrieved February 25, 2015.
• Top 10 Health Problems in America. (2013, August 16).
Retrieved February 25, 2015.