For example, the assess to a grocery stores and fresh fruit retailers can provide people assess to a healthier diet. However, when you are located in a community with a large number of retailers that sell unhealthy food may also contribute to chronic disease due to their poor diets. With that being said, supermarkets are harder to find in lower income neighborhoods and communities meaning limited availability. This is because the market would not survive in that kind of economy. In addition, transportation will affect the food choices that people make because residents in low-income, urban areas are less likely to own cars, which makes it more difficult to travel to and from grocery stores. At the same time that low-income neighborhoods and communities of color lack access to healthy food retailers, they often suffer a glut of fast food because it is much …show more content…
Not everyone has the same assess to fresh foods. Change is needed because people from lower income neighborhoods and communities are facing many medical problems due to the unhealthy diets they are constantly consuming. Which is due to the lack of cheaper options of fresh fruits and vegetables. I believe people need to understand that just because their family have the same assess to a supermarket, does not mean that everybody else does. I think people need to stop taking what they have for granted and do some research about how bad the food insecurity is here in the United States and even around the world as well. Especially when eating at college because many students complains about the food here but what they do not understand how lucky they really are for always having food available for them to eat. On campus you will never go