BrainStuff Classics: What Are Food Deserts?
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🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In the U.S., 17.6 million people lack access to healthy food because there aren't any grocery stores or other shops that sell fresh food nearby. Learn about food deserts and how we can fix them in this classic episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/americans-still-lack-access-to-healthy-food.htm
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| 1:22.9 | Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:43.9 | Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here with a classic episode from our archives. |
| 1:48.8 | This one goes into the harsh realities of the gaps in our food supply chain here in the United |
| 1:53.9 | States and what's being done to improve the situation. Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. |
| 2:02.0 | The United States still struggles to feed people adequately. According to a new analysis by the |
| 2:07.6 | nonprofit organization Reinvestment Fund, 17.6 million Americans lack access to healthy food. |
| 2:15.2 | It's not all bad news. They analyzed limited supermarket areas or LSAs, often called food |
| 2:21.2 | deserts. Their analysis shows that in most states, access to healthy food has improved overall |
| 2:26.6 | during the past several years, even in states with significant population growth such as Florida |
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