Food deserts. They can be anywhere and everywhere you look, and you don't even realize it! A food desert is when an area has little or no choices of healthy foods. For example, a food desert can be
an area where there are nothing but fast food restaurants for miles of the place! Take at look on the picture to the left and tell me, do you see a healthy place to eat here? The problem about this, is that the people in this neighborhood don't have a choice but to eat fast food if they want to eat anything! To top it off, I'd bet that this neighborhood, like most food deserts, has no organic food in their super markets, and can only get their hands on sugary cereals and fatty foods. The people in this neighborhood are most likely to be obese and have health problems like diabetes, heart disease, and more.Think about what you ate yesterday from the minute you woke up to when you fell asleep at night. What did you eat? Now think. Are you going out of your way to eat healthy? Or are you just "going with the flow?" I'll admit, I do not go out of my way to eat healthy. Everything I eat everyday, may not be horrible choices, some are actually very healthy, but then some are unhealthy. From when I wake up, here is one of my food schedules. healthy is in green. unhealthy is in red. in the middle is in pink.
- breakfast: cheerio's w/ milk, hot chocolate on my way to school.
- in school: I sneak a chocolate bar into class, I eat school pizza (its food packed in a box and re-heated :x), a small bag of sliced apples.
- after school: *McDonald's (a double cheese burger (plain), small fries, a small high-c orange drink (no ice))
- when i get home: a bowl of macaroni and cheese
- snack: 2 jello chocolate fat free puddings, a banana, Capri sport drinks
- dinner: fried chicken, rice, pink beans, Pepsi or Fanta soda.
