No Money, No Options: How Location Demographics Determines Healthy Living

Abstract

This study will focus on the parallel between low-income communities' residents and their access to healthy and holistic foods within proximity, commonly known as food deserts. When opening businesses in the food industry, a group of them overlook low-income communities. The action of these companies leaves a significant group of Americans to settle for scraps when it comes to nutrition. This study seeks to answer the research question, why is profit more important in a country that is desperate to be healthy? If America is one of the leading obese countries in the world, why doesn't the government develop an effective way to give people of low-come communities better access to holistic foods? The goal is to examine the ramifications on people's health when they are not exposed to holistic foods on a regular basis.