Discriminatory zoning and housing policies have concentrated poverty in America along racial lines. As a result, healthy food options are limited in many low-income and Black neighborhoods.
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A food policy researcher helps make sense of the lexicon of US food policy terms, and explains how they relate to racial justice.
Although nutritious, inexpensive food options do exist for low-income Canadians, whether those foods are easily accessible or feasible has long evaded both nutrition researchers and politicians.
An abundance of unhealthy food choices in neighbourhoods is called a food swamp. But since swamps are actually wetlands and good for public health, we should choose a new term.
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Assistant professor, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université Laval
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Associate Professor of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor, Eakin Chair in Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodology, University of Toronto