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In 'food deserts' of city, healthy eating a mirage: Study: More fast food, fewer grocers for blacks.
Byline: Johnathon E. Briggs
Jul. 18--For African-Americans who live in "food deserts" on Chicago's South and West Sides, where fast-food restaurants are plentiful and grocery stores are scarce, a lack of choices is more than an inconvenience. A provocative new study concludes that residents are more likely to die prematurely from diabetes, cancer and other ailments.
The study, to be released Tuesday, is the latest in a series looking at the way Chicago residents get their food, and the most far reaching in its conclusions.
Mari Gallagher, the consultant who conducted the study for LaSalle Bank, stops short of saying there is a cause-and-effect relationship between living in a food desert and developing a disease.
But she says the evidence offers a "statistically significant" link between food options and health conditions that suggests food deserts may "pose serious health and wellness challenges to the residents who live within them and the city ...
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