Food deserts are areas without access to healthy and affordable food options. They lack supermarkets and grocery stores. The poor are three times as likely to have diabetes and have a 3.5% chance of dying from diabetes compared to the rich. Business owners are not opening stores in low-income communities, creating a problem. Most families in need buy the cheapest, unhealthy food and experience food insecurity to feed their children. First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign aims to fight obesity and the government is investing $400 million to address food deserts.

2. FOOD DESSERT
• A Food Desert is a community where
there is no access to healthy food
options.
• Where they do not have supermarkets
or grocery stores
• Food Insecurity- When people do not
have enough money to buy food for
the week or month.

3. • The rich have 16
Farmer’s markets
compered to 6 of the
poor.
• The poor are 3 times
as likely to have
diabetes.
• The poor have a 3.5%
chance of dying from
diabetes.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN POOR AND RICH

4. The problem
is that
business
owners are
not opening
up
supermarkets
and grocery
stores in low
income
communities.
PROBLEM

5. EFFECTS
• 84 percent of client
households with
children report buying
the cheapest food
available, even if they
knew it wasn't the
healthiest option, in an
effort to provide food
for their family
• Among Feeding
America Cilent
households with
children, nearly 9 in 10
households (89 percent
are food insecure).

6. • First lady Michelle Obama has a
campaign to fight obesity called
Let’s Move.
• There is a $400 million
investment by the government
towards the problem which will
help get rid of food deserts.
THINGS BEING DONE!

7. • You can join and support the “Let’s
Move” Campaign.
• You can find food deserts around you
with the USDA’s Food dessert locator
map. (You can find out if you live in a
food desert.)
• You can sign up for Supermarket
Stakeout.
• You can Spread the word.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?

8. https://youtu.be/Jp4jUg9nJcU
VIDEO

9. CITATION PAGE
Citation page
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