Food Deserts and Food Swamps

hi, everyone.

So today I will be presenting on food, deserts and

food swamps in the United States.

So for a quick introduction, what is a food desert

versus of food Swamp?

So food deserts our communities that have little to no

access to affordable, healthy food.

And this is usually due to the fact that grocery

stores and other places that sell healthy food are located

very far away from residents and food.

Swamps are areas with an abundance of fast food restaurants,

convenience stores or liquor stores, and they often tend to

outnumber stores that do sell healthy food in the area.

So for public health goals and values, food, deserts and

food swamps exacerbate health disparities, and you could see that

from the characteristics of areas with food, deserts and food

swamps so they usually have high rates of poverty.

Communities with high percentages of minorities, especially African American headland,

X populations and residents, have limited access to transportation and

other service is including banks and health care and parks

and food, deserts and food.

Swamps can be located both urban or rural settings, and

the objectives are obviously to reduce incidence of obesity, especially

Children, reduce prevalence of other diet related diseases such as

diabetes and heart disease.

And both of these things are related thio food, swamps

and food deserts and also to reduce the health disparities,

um, in the communities that live in food, deserts and

food swamps.

And then, for some implications, um, there has been suggestions

for fighting obesity chronic disease by increasing grocery stores and

food deserts.

So, yes and no.

It's important to have increased accessibility of healthy, affordable foods.

But adding grocery stores doesn't necessarily fix the problem if

the grocery stores have very expensive healthy food, and consumers

are making uninformed decisions and still buying junk food, so

food swamps have instead been shown to play a greater

role in rising obesity rates.

For some solutions and interventions, we could have zoning regulations

that limit how Maney fast food restaurants can be put

in area, as well as connecting residents to re sources

such as food pantries, snap gardening, education and nutrition.

Resource is as supporting local suppliers such as farmers markets.

Thank you very much

Audio TranscriptAuto-generated