A number of community gardens are popping up in urban communities across the nation in response to a lack of access to full-service grocery stores and healthy fresh foods.
For residents of these food deserts, the prospect of healthy, fresh food comes at a critical juncture where rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases run rampant in low-income areas.
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In inner-city communities where corner store junk food is often a meal for children, numerous studies show that today’s children will face life-threatening health challenges as early as their 20s and 30s if they continue to consume the volumes of processed and fast food now in their diets.