Food Deserts
1234 Gennesee Dr
CA 79999
Dear Mr. Scientist,
At the moment, my group and I are working on an environment project and our topic is Food Deserts. We have done plenty of research and gotten good information about food deserts, but we still have some questions we didn't find answers to. We found out that healthy foods are more expensive than unhealthy foods in food deserts. Food deserts have changed our healthy lives because many adults and teenagers are getting diabetes or are becoming obese. We need to find a way of changing the food deserts so everyone could be healthy.
First off, the health from 1996 to 2015 has changed. There is adults and teenagers who are getting type 2 diabetes because of food deserts. Hispanics and African-Americans have higher rates of diabetes then Caucasians because in the difference of incomes. How are these two ethnicities with the high rates when we all eat junk food? Families that don't have much money in other words low incomes live in food deserts.
Second off, about 24 million people live in food deserts and half of them have low-incomes. There are families that don't have much money but since they have no supermarkets around they go to a liquor store to buy their groceries there and although it's expensive, they still continue to buy it there because supermarkets aren't nearby. Why don't liquors sell grocery in a price people could afford? In food deserts, there are plenty of liquors and fast food restaurants all around.
In addition, many fast food restaurants have a one dollar menu and teenagers/children take advantage of that because they could afford it. People can afford unhealthy food but not healthy food, liquor stores that sell groceries sell it in a higher price than an actual supermarket, but sell junk food (cookies, candy, chips, donuts, etc) cheap. Why is fast food/junk food cheaper than actual food?
Our research has helped us find some good information about food deserts and answered a couple of our questions, but we would still like for you to provide us more information for the questions above. Food deserts are destroying peoples health because they are not eating healthy, they go for the fast food because it is cheap and they cannot spend much money on food. Thank you for time, we hope to hear from you soon with some information. Food deserts need to be changed, and it won't be changed if we don't do anything about it.
Sincerely, Arlet Moctezuma, Jocelin Arriaga, Christian San Nicolas, Seth Hawver
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