Secondly, the article notes that fast food is common because most of the people cannot afford real food. For instance, the author notes that about half of the population receives food stamps at an average of $5 daily. While the amount is ideally not enough, it is possible that one can survive on it daily. As the Congressman asserts, the nation’s food deserts that also receive food stamps have the highest rates of obesity. Ryan notes that Mississippi, with the highest obesity rate in the country, has over seventy percent of its residents enrolled in the food stamps program. Furthermore, the residents have to travel more than thirty miles to reach a supermarket (Ryan 1). The implication is that despite much of state having food deserts and benefiting
