There are several ways which food supplying firms affect households. The household can relocate to an area with a different retail environment; the stores in the neighborhood can change their products, and firms can either leave a neighborhood or enter a new one. When location was controlled for, that was only a marginal difference in expenditure and nutrition scores when lower socioeconomic groups were placed in locations with more healthful options. Stores that change their products often do not change them in accordance to a communities tastes rapidly changing, but would rather enter an entirely new market; community tastes rarely undergo such dramatic shifts in short periods of time. It was observed that households did in fact change where
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One paper used 15 years of CARDIA data to examine the link between fast food restaurants and diets in adults aged 18-30. CARDIA data was pulled from the cities of Birmingham, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Oakland. It assessed trends in childhood obesity rates between the cities and their states, the frequency of fast food consumption from a yearly survey, the fruit and vegetable intake, and how close diets followed the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans by the USDA and Department of Health Services (HHS). In 2010 President Obama established the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity to combat widespread childhood obesity. “The goal of the action plan is to reduce the childhood obesity rate to just five percent by 2030 – the same rate before childhood obesity first began to rise in the late 1970s.” Fast food consumption, diet quality, and fruit and vegetable consumption were used to measure the availability in an area of fast food chains, supermarkets, and grocery …show more content…
The research is continuing to evolve, but rarely does science propose a single solution as a panacea to tackle a multilayered problem. From the studies written in this research paper, two solutions can be proposed. The first is to address the problem of suburban sprawl as an unsustainable model for American development. In rural areas, automobile dependence is not a choice, but mandatory to function in society. Single-use zoning has created an inefficient place of living and was evident in the study of SNAP beneficiaries. The great majority of SNAP recipients shopped at supermarkets and they were widely accessible. However, the greatest disparity in consumption was seen in those who households who were located more than five miles away from a supermarket and did not own a car. Addressing this physical dimension to the problems of social equity and obesity is tricky as a call for community improvement can be misconstrued as a call for gentrification and displacement; it has to come in slow, piece meal fashion as opposed to the rapid development of suburbia. For the urban environment, it becomes more of an issue of socioeconomic opportunity. Government intervention can improve health by providing subsidies and tax breaks to high-quality food retailers. This would certainly incentivize entry into a low-and-moderate
One paper used 15 years of CARDIA data to examine the link between fast food restaurants and diets in adults aged 18-30. CARDIA data was pulled from the cities of Birmingham, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Oakland. It assessed trends in childhood obesity rates between the cities and their states, the frequency of fast food consumption from a yearly survey, the fruit and vegetable intake, and how close diets followed the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans by the USDA and Department of Health Services (HHS). In 2010 President Obama established the White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity to combat widespread childhood obesity. “The goal of the action plan is to reduce the childhood obesity rate to just five percent by 2030 – the same rate before childhood obesity first began to rise in the late 1970s.” Fast food consumption, diet quality, and fruit and vegetable consumption were used to measure the availability in an area of fast food chains, supermarkets, and grocery …show more content…
The research is continuing to evolve, but rarely does science propose a single solution as a panacea to tackle a multilayered problem. From the studies written in this research paper, two solutions can be proposed. The first is to address the problem of suburban sprawl as an unsustainable model for American development. In rural areas, automobile dependence is not a choice, but mandatory to function in society. Single-use zoning has created an inefficient place of living and was evident in the study of SNAP beneficiaries. The great majority of SNAP recipients shopped at supermarkets and they were widely accessible. However, the greatest disparity in consumption was seen in those who households who were located more than five miles away from a supermarket and did not own a car. Addressing this physical dimension to the problems of social equity and obesity is tricky as a call for community improvement can be misconstrued as a call for gentrification and displacement; it has to come in slow, piece meal fashion as opposed to the rapid development of suburbia. For the urban environment, it becomes more of an issue of socioeconomic opportunity. Government intervention can improve health by providing subsidies and tax breaks to high-quality food retailers. This would certainly incentivize entry into a low-and-moderate