What Are Food Deserts?

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What Are Food Deserts?

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Sep 14, 2018

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In the United States, 17.6 million American lack access to healthy food because there aren't any grocery stores or other establishments that sell fresh food in their area. Learn about food deserts and how we can fix them in this episode of BrainStuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

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Sep 14, 2018

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