Cause of Childhood Obesity
What is a food desert?
Food deserts are parts of the country that have a lack of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers' markets, and healthy food providers. These places are often covered in fast food places like McDonald's, Taco Bell, and convenient marts.
How it affects our schools.
When a school is in a food desert, sometimes they have trouble getting healthy food for the kids. This makes it even worse for them because they don't have healthy meals at home or at school.
Diets
Having an unhealthy diet affects your body in all kinds of ways. For example they can cause, tooth decay,high blood pressure,high cholesterol,heart disease and stroke,type-2 diabetes, and many more.
Chicago
23.5 million people live in food deserts and half of those people have a low income.
This graph shows how many people in Chicago that are affected by food deserts.
Think you need help? Want to help?
Here's a place where they sell affordable healthy foods. Eco City Farms is a non-profit organizations that helps the communities in need. They also take volunteers every Saturday. Check the site for more info.
Email: info@ecocityfarms.org
Website: http://www.ecoffshoots.org/
Phone: 301-288-1125