Author : Michele Ver Ploeg
Release : 2010-02
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences write by Michele Ver Ploeg. This book was released on 2010-02. Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Dept. of Agr. to conduct a 1-year study to assess the extent of areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, identify characteristics and causes of such areas, consider how limited access affects local populations, and outline recommend. to address the problem. This report presents the findings of the study, which include results from two conferences of national and internat. authorities on food deserts and a set of research studies. It also includes reviews of existing literature, a national-level assessment of access to large grocery stores and supermarkets, analysis of the economic and public health effects of limited access, and a discussion of existing policy interventions. Illus.