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Literature Research Review

For my question, I have chosen to research the following statement

“ Why do people prefer unhealthy food over healthy food”

But after doing my research on my question I have now got to now that why people don’t like healthy food. Basically there are two factors involved in this, one is that healthy and
fresh food is more expensive to a certain point where some people cannot access them. The other point is that switching to healthy food isn’t as easy how it is. If you read my
research then you will see how in one of the articles it said that fast food/unhealthy food is much more easier to locate, because there are so many restaurants located
everywhere you go. Also there is one more, in some areas there are more fast food chains than grocery stores.
APA citation of article: Retrieved from (website address): Notes from article (summarized in YOUR OWN
Copy and paste citation in this column WORDS):

Freeman, A. (2007). Fast Food: Oppression
through Poor Nutrition. California Law Review,
95(6), 2221–2259.
https://doi.org/10.2307/20439143
Datar, A., & Nicosia, N. (2012). Junk Food in
Schools and Childhood Obesity. Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management, 31(2), 312–
337. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41429280
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20439143
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 One reason the article said that Junk foods cost
 Junk food/fast food markets target minority which
are low income communities through race based
marketing and advertisement.
 Also more people seem to be attracted to
unhealthy food because there are fast food
restaurants that charge less and that make the
food hot and also they are located basically
everywhere you go
 The article stated that unhealthy and popular
canteens, stores and also school vending
machines.
 According to the Federal Nutritional Standards,
school meals are not regulated which basically

Currie, J., DellaVigna, S., Moretti, E., & Pathania,
V. (2010). The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants
on Obesity and Weight Gain. American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2(3), 32–63.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25760073
Dimitri, C., & Rogus, S. (2014). FOOD
CHOICES, FOOD SECURITY, AND FOOD
POLICY. Journal of International Affairs, 67(2),
19–31. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24461733
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means that schools add cheaper food which are
basically junk foods available to children during
their school years which would effect what they
consume when they grow up
 In the article on the very first page it had given
food and the reason it said that was among nineth
graders there is a fast food located within 0.1
miles of their school
 Also it stated that there is a fast food within 0.5
miles of pregnant women and a fast food
restaurant within also 0.5 miles of residence
 Overall there is more access to fast food
restaurants
 In this article it stated that people spent 38% less
 It stated that low income individual people have a
different diet than others.
 Neighborhoods with high proportion of African
Americans have more fast food restaurants and
less supermarkets than compared to other
neighborhoods
 Overall there are more less supermarkets which
can provide healthy and nutritious stuff and more
fast food restaurants that provide unhealthy foods

Dobson, P. W., & Gerstner, E. (2010). For a Few
Cents More: Why Supersize Unhealthy Food?
Marketing Science, 29(4), 770–778.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40864647
Kenny, P. J. (2013). the food addiction. Scientific
American, 309(3), 44–49.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/26017984
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/40864647  In the article it says that people are buying more
? unhealthy food because of the advertisement,
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/26017984  Basically in this article they have said that the
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