Reply #46: A lot America's poor can't get to supermarkets [View All]

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They don't own cars and the supermarket chains don't locate in inner cities or rural areas. This leaves a lot of people with access only to convenience stores, which sell almost nothing but junk food.

A surprising number of Americans do their regular shopping at convenience stores, and their diets are almost entirely made up of processed food. As a result they are obese but undernourished, at high risk for diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.