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Nearly 24 million Americans live in food deserts, low-income neighborhoods with no access to affordable, fresh, healthy food. As a result, people who live in these areas often have poor diets that ...

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Food & Drink Nearly 19 million people in the US live in a food desert: Here’s what that means By Hadley Mendelsohn for Hers Stacker Updated June 26, 2025 3:18 PM ...

The federal government defines a food desert as a "geographic area lacking access to fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas, largely due to a ...

Others face "food desert" conditions because they travel farther to buy food, sometimes without transportation. Neighbors who live near the closed Kroger store in Murfreesboro, for example, reside in ...