“This might create even more of these food deserts, or what people are now calling food ‘swamps’, where there is an excess of processed food and a lack of fresh produce available at accessible prices,” she says. “Highly processed food makes you sick,” says William McCarthy, an adjunct professor of public health at UCLA. While perceptions of the stores and community accessibility changed, patrons continued to purchase processed food instead of the fresh stuff. Obama-era regulations designed to improve access to healthy food for low-income families have stalled. “It is getting better – just as grocery stores got better,” the Grocery author Michael Ruhlman explains.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2019 06:00 UTC