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By meridiantimes | February 27, 2013

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Grocery stores and fast-food restaurants in Flint and Detroit, only part of food disparities puzzle

To illustrate the jigsaw puzzle that explains health and food disparities in low-income communities, comparisons between two low-income communities, Flint and Detroit, reveal a lack of grocery stores with affordable prices and the abundance of fast-food restaurant are key challenges linked to adverse health issues such as obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. “It basically confirmed that there’s a lot of junk food on kids’ menus in poorer neighborhoods of urban areas,” said Rick Sadler, assistant professor in MSU’s College of Human Medicine’s Division of Public Health — Flint campus, who co-authored in 2018 a study on how students who attend schools in urban areas with high levels of socioeconomic distress consume foods with low levels of nutritional value such as fast-food.

Fast-food frequency in Detroit

“The number of fast food restaurants are too many to count, but I would say more than 10,” said Detroit resident Darion Jackson.

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