Food Swamps Are the New Food Deserts
It’s not just a lack of grocery stores that’s making us fat. It’s an overabundance of fast food.
The term “food desert” conjures the image of a forlorn citizen, wandering through a barren landscape for miles and miles (or, by definition, for ) to reach the nearest fresh-food market. Populating food deserts with grocery stores is a favored cause among nutrition advocates, but the concept became found the distance to the nearest grocery store doesn’t correlate with a region’s .
