food desert

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00:56 Sep 18, 2020
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Social Sciences - Nutrition
Additional field(s): Food & Drink, Government / Politics, Nutrition, Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: food desert
Definition from Cambridge Blog:
An area where there is little or no access to healthy food.

Example sentence(s):
  • These are also the groups most likely to live in food deserts, and researchers have established a strong correlation between food insecurity and increased diabetes rates. One study of Chicago neighborhoods found the death rate from diabetes in food deserts to be twice that of areas offering access to grocery stores, [14] while another conducted in California found that adults ages 50 and over from black and brown communities had double the diabetes rate of whites from the same age demographic. Food Is Power
  • Educating those in the community or tract of the food desert can help make changes, such as growing their own food and working with local convenience stores to sell healthier food options. Public awareness of food deserts can lead to healthy discourse and may even lead to ideas about how to end food deserts in America once and for all. Gardening Know-how
  • The key to getting food into food deserts is to make it as easy as possible for people to access fresh, healthy food. Shareable
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5食物沙漠
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食物沙漠


Definition from 地理研究 ; 71期 (2019 / 11 / 01) :
“食物沙漠一词是指居民无法购买或负担不起生鲜食物的地区,往往会对弱势族群带来生理与心理上的负面影响。。。"

Example sentence(s):
  • "在人口不足,社会经济条件处于弱势的社区,由于住宅附近缺乏菜场或超市,居民获取健康且价格合理的零售食物来源不足,容易出现食物沙漠问题。" - 《南京大学》 2019年  
Yining Wang
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