Comments on: A Debate about Food Deserts http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/12/a-debate-about-food-deserts/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: SD http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/12/a-debate-about-food-deserts/#comment-1576 SD Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:00:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=2792#comment-1576 1) McWhorter didn't say food deserts are a myth. He said the link between food deserts and obesity (due to lack of access to nutritious foods) is a myth. 2) Moreover, the recent RAND study shows that food deserts might really be a myth! It shows that poor neighborhoods actually have, on average, MORE access to various food choices, including nutritional food, and that there is no link between the availability of nutritious foods and obesity.  Will we see a post from you about this? Or do you remain silent when actual data runs counter to your non-empirical claims?? 1) McWhorter didn’t say food deserts are a myth. He said the link between food deserts and obesity (due to lack of access to nutritious foods) is a myth.
2) Moreover, the recent RAND study shows that food deserts might really be a myth! It shows that poor neighborhoods actually have, on average, MORE access to various food choices, including nutritional food, and that there is no link between the availability of nutritious foods and obesity. 

Will we see a post from you about this? Or do you remain silent when actual data runs counter to your non-empirical claims??

]]> By: nandalal rasiah http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/12/a-debate-about-food-deserts/#comment-178 nandalal rasiah Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:24:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=2792#comment-178 sounds like it's time to ask an actual poor person living in a 'food desert' how they feel. Privileged upbringings will color the analysis. Being under the poverty line and over an hour's drive from the nearest grocery store didn't prevent my mother from providing those veggies and fruits, neither did the food Sahara I called home prevent any other community members from doing the same thing. That was culture. sounds like it’s time to ask an actual poor person living in a ‘food desert’ how they feel. Privileged upbringings will color the analysis. Being under the poverty line and over an hour’s drive from the nearest grocery store didn’t prevent my mother from providing those veggies and fruits, neither did the food Sahara I called home prevent any other community members from doing the same thing. That was culture.

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