--- 1st Video Info: THE FOOD DESERT PROJECT - 87 Conceptions brings you a look behind the world of food in Baltimore, Md. "The Food Desert Project" Which briefly details what a food desert is and why certain locations are deemed as such.
Much work must still be done to improve food access issues, and increase awareness of the realities of resource disparities as well as lack of food education. Ultimately, we the people must demand fresh and healthy foods in our neighborhoods. Until we start caring more about issues of food insecurity and make a collective effort things may just stay the same... DO YOUR PART!
Shot and edited by: Pascal of 87Conceptions Contact: [email protected]
S/O to all parties involved with this project.
--- 2nd Video Info: Mari talks about Food Desert awareness and solutions, negligence regarding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the unapologetic basics of improving public health through "Truth in Data for the Common Good."
Mari Gallagher is principal of Mari Gallagher Research and Consulting Group, a firm whose expertise includes "going green", immigration, health and wellness projects, and -- of course -- food deserts.
She is the author of Examining the Impact of Food Deserts on Public Health in Chicago, a breakthrough study which popularized the term "food desert" across the country, and currently writes for the Huffington Post. Venues that have featured her findings include CNN, National Public Radio, Salon.com, USA Today, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune and The Detroit Free Press.
Much work must still be done to improve food access issues, and increase awareness of the realities of resource disparities as well as lack of food education. Ultimately, we the people must demand fresh and healthy foods in our neighborhoods. Until we start caring more about issues of food insecurity and make a collective effort things may just stay the same... DO YOUR PART!
Shot and edited by: Pascal of 87Conceptions Contact: [email protected]
S/O to all parties involved with this project.
--- 2nd Video Info: Mari talks about Food Desert awareness and solutions, negligence regarding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the unapologetic basics of improving public health through "Truth in Data for the Common Good."
Mari Gallagher is principal of Mari Gallagher Research and Consulting Group, a firm whose expertise includes "going green", immigration, health and wellness projects, and -- of course -- food deserts.
She is the author of Examining the Impact of Food Deserts on Public Health in Chicago, a breakthrough study which popularized the term "food desert" across the country, and currently writes for the Huffington Post. Venues that have featured her findings include CNN, National Public Radio, Salon.com, USA Today, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune and The Detroit Free Press.
Food Deserts Aren't The Problem (Excerpt)
Getting fresh fruits and vegetables into low-income neighborhoods doesn’t make poor people healthier.
By Heather Tirado Gilligan
. . . The Healthy Food Financing Initiative was more than a victory for the food movement. Aimed in large part at low-income city neighborhoods, which tend to be disproportionately black and Latino, it was—and is—the Obama administration’s most visible policy designed to help poor people of color. The Healthy Food Financing Initiative has distributed more than $500 million to increase fresh food access—at the same time that funding for food stamps, a program proven to improve the lives of people living in poverty, was cut to pre-stimulus levels. Since the reductions, food stamp recipients have received just $1.40 per meal per family member.
Unfortunately, more fresh food closer to home likely does nothing for folks at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Obesity levels don’t drop when low-income city neighborhoods have or get grocery stores. A 2011 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed no connection between access to grocery stores and more healthful diets using 15 years’ worth of data from more than 5,000 people in five cities. One 2012 study showed that the local food environment did not influence the diet of middle-school children in California. Another 2012 study, published in Social Science and Medicine, used national data on store availability and a multiyear study of grade-schoolers to show no connection between food environment and diet. And this month, a study in Health Affairs examined one of the Philadelphia grocery stores that opened with help from the Fresh Food Financing Initiative. The authors found that the store had no significant impact on reducing obesity or increasing daily fruit and vegetable consumption in the four years since it opened. ... to read article in its entirety go to >> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food
Link to: Food desert From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Getting fresh fruits and vegetables into low-income neighborhoods doesn’t make poor people healthier.
By Heather Tirado Gilligan
. . . The Healthy Food Financing Initiative was more than a victory for the food movement. Aimed in large part at low-income city neighborhoods, which tend to be disproportionately black and Latino, it was—and is—the Obama administration’s most visible policy designed to help poor people of color. The Healthy Food Financing Initiative has distributed more than $500 million to increase fresh food access—at the same time that funding for food stamps, a program proven to improve the lives of people living in poverty, was cut to pre-stimulus levels. Since the reductions, food stamp recipients have received just $1.40 per meal per family member.
Unfortunately, more fresh food closer to home likely does nothing for folks at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Obesity levels don’t drop when low-income city neighborhoods have or get grocery stores. A 2011 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed no connection between access to grocery stores and more healthful diets using 15 years’ worth of data from more than 5,000 people in five cities. One 2012 study showed that the local food environment did not influence the diet of middle-school children in California. Another 2012 study, published in Social Science and Medicine, used national data on store availability and a multiyear study of grade-schoolers to show no connection between food environment and diet. And this month, a study in Health Affairs examined one of the Philadelphia grocery stores that opened with help from the Fresh Food Financing Initiative. The authors found that the store had no significant impact on reducing obesity or increasing daily fruit and vegetable consumption in the four years since it opened. ... to read article in its entirety go to >> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food
Link to: Food desert From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia