And that phrase shows what right wing dogshit that study is.

It doesn't take a fucking genius to realize that food deserts are real, that it's far, far fucking harder to eat healthily if you're poor rather than middle class or more.

I'm poor. I eat healthily. I'm also educated and a fine cook and I grew up in a home where convenience foods of any kind were shunned. It's hard to do what I do. It takes time, imagination and work. And that's without any children to care for.

As well as convenience plus advertising.

For one, bad choices are heavily marketed in inner city and non-affluential areas. It's been that way since the bad old days of cigarette billboards.

And markets in urban areas may be more plentiful, but they usually tend to be smaller, with poorly stocked inventories of inferior products, if you compare them to their suburban counterparts.

Now it's true that people who live in the city may tend to walk more, but if their diet choices and other eating habits and lack of exercise overwhelms whatever caloric benefit of not always having the convience of a car, you're going to have that obesity problem that we have today.

that we live in a country where we can complain about the quality of the food that poor people eat, rather than its non-existence. I have been to countries where someone would knife you for a Big Mac.