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Photo reblogged from 18° 15' N, 77° 30' W
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Photo reblogged from Kemetically Ankhtified
Like they say: You can’t get healthy food if you have no access to it. I think of those spots in SF, Chicago, and Oakland, where you can drive and drive without seeing any good supermarkets…everything is fast food, liquor stores, and funeral parlors…oh and church’s….MESSAGE!!!!
Food Deserts Leave Many Americans High and Dry
Where fresh foods are scarce, so is good health
FOOD DESERTS NYC: I used to live in a food desert in the South Bronx, NYC. It was easier to get a bacon, cheese, egg on a roll for breakfast from the local Indian deli than it was to find a supermarket with bacon, fresh eggs and real cheese. Fortunately I had the ability to grocery shop outside the neighborhood. But for thousands and thousands of people, especially those in the projects, that choice was not available. I read statements published by conservative or whatever politicians saying “food deserts don’t exist.” Well, they do. Look right in the backyard of New York City.
Good piece from Scientific American below…
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Even within the borders of one of the world’s top agricultural countries, healthy food can be hard to come by. Many Americans reside in food deserts—communities where retailers offering fresh food are scarce but fast-food restaurants and convenience stores selling prepared foods can abound.
The top two maps at the right show the proximity of full-line grocers to two groups for whom healthy food is often difficult to procure: low-income households and those without access to a vehicle. Scientists are still exploring the links between food deserts and health by investigating how the nonavailability of fresh food may spur obesity, diabetes and other diet-related conditions. One 2006 study found an association between the presence of supermarkets and lower obesity rates. Convenience stores, on the other hand, were associated with higher rates.
“You always have to be careful about suggesting cause and effect,” says Mari Gallagher, whose Chicago consulting firm carries out case studies of local food environments. The relation between food and health is complex, and personal choice clearly plays a role. “But we do think that the environment, in a lot of different ways, matters,” Gallagher says. “You can’t choose healthy food if you don’t have access to it.”
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Audio post reblogged from CULTURE ANOMALY
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 245 playsKali Yuga by Georgia Anne MuldrowGeorgia Anne Muldrow - Kali Yuga
(Some of that’ soul FILLING shit. Listen up)
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Photo reblogged from Consider the Elephant
Poem #8 for National Poetry Month.
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Pick Your Artist
-The Police
Are you a male or female?
-Demolition Man
Describe yourself:
-Truth Hits Everybody
How do you feel:
-Synchronicity II
Describe where you currently live:
-Darkness
If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
-Secret Journey
Your favorite form of transportation:
-Walking on the Moon
Your best friend is:
-King of Pain
Your favorite color is:
-Too Much information
What’s the weather like:
-Tea in the Sahara
Favorite time of the day:
-Bring on the Night
If your life was a tv show, what would it be called:
-Message in a Bottle
What is life to you:
-When the World is Running Down You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
Your relationships:
-Don’t Stand too Close to Me
Your fear:
-Murder by Numbers
What is the best advice you have to give:
-One World Not Three
If you could change your name, you would change it to:
-Omega Man
Thought for the Day:
-On Any Other Day
How I would like to die:
-The Other Way of Stopping
My soul’s present condition:
- Hole in My Life
My Motto:
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Photo reblogged from "♕ AFRODESIAC ETHNIC WOMEN OF CULTURE WORLDWIDE
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Quote reblogged from Kemetically AnkhtifiedOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63. (via feministquotes)
