Rand Corporation: Tamara Dubowitz- 'Eliminating Food Deserts'

Source:The Rand Corporation- Scientist Tamara Dubowitz.

"Can building a grocery store in a "food desert" change food purchasing and reduce health disparities in the U.S.? Tamara Dubowitz introduces an innovative new RAND project that may provide answers.

From the Rand Corporation 

We have at least a couple problems as it relates to access to quality food in America. One, is affordability. We simply have too many Americans who don't make enough money to afford enough.

Two, we have have an obesity problem as well however you want to define that problem, where obesity and diabetes are the two fastest growing diseases in America and what makes that problem even worse, is that they are both preventable diseases and they are both adding to the Un-affordability of our healthcare system. Now 18% of GDP, twice as much as the rest of the developed world.