food desert

Portuguese translation: deserto alimentar

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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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Portuguese translation:deserto alimentar
Definition:
O conceito, recente e complexo, define os lugares com difícil acesso a alimentos nutritivos - e que têm, como consequência, a diminuição do seu consumo.
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deserto alimentar


Definition from UOL:
O conceito, recente e complexo, define os lugares com difícil acesso a alimentos nutritivos - e que têm, como consequência, a diminuição do seu consumo.

Example sentence(s):
  • O problema vem sendo cada vez mais documentado e caracteriza a expansão dos desertos alimentares no país, áreas em que é difícil o acesso a alimentos saudáveis, como frutas e verduras. - Unifesp  
Felipe Tomasi
Brazil
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