Health

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Health Nutrition
Educating Americans on low-cost healthy
diets.Solomon
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The Process

• The project took many weeks to compile enough
  facts to backup my thesis.

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Eating Right Every Day

• This disparity between low income and wealthier
  populations in nutrition has been caused by
  socioeconomic factors include income, food
  prices, accessibility and nutrition knowledge.
  This gap can be closed by educating Americans
  about nutrition and healthy low-cost eating
  habits, improving government programs and
  encouraging smart shopping and food consumption.

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The Food PyramidSteps to a healthier you
GRAINS
VEGETABLES
FRUITS
OILS
MILK
MEAT BEANS
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Low incomeVary your veggies

• Food has become more expensive and therefore
  difficult to afford, especially for the people in
  poverty.
• Incomes of the poor and in promoting food
  consumption hbut not nutrition
• A typical school menu will include food
  commodities unwanted by restaurants and other
  major food services.

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AccessibilityFocus on fruits

• Dallas Wards 7 and 8 only have one grocery store
  per 70,000 people which causes congestion in
  stores and probably frequents sell outs of food
• Chicago, Illinois supermarkets numbers are low in
  the about 1 million populated Southside compared
  to the Northside
• In Los Angeles Where 10-20 of household income
  is less than the 35,000/yr, there are over 3
  times as many supermarkets as in those where
  60-70 of the households earn less than
  35,000/yr.

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Convenience Vs. Grocery Stores
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ResultsKnow your fats

• Food-related health conditions bring in medical
  expenses, unemployment, disability, and premature
  deaths Discuss how much children should eat daily
  and what foods contain oils and fats.
• The top four killer diseases in America related
  to food.
• Trans fat 1 Killer of African American high
  among other populations.

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Solutions

• Long Term
• Economic changes in government and commercial
  arenas will improve financial conditions among
  low income people
• Focusing on agribusiness strategies will help
  close the nutrition gap
• Short Term
• Educating and encouraging health programs that
  will instruct people about low-cost diet habits
• Smart shopping a personal benefit to low income
  on eliminating the disparity

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Education

• Educating and encouraging health programs that
  will instruct people about low-cost diet habits
• Culture based cookbooks with healthy alternatives
• Encourage children to eat foods in each group to
  meet their daily requirements.

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Shop Smart

• Smart shopping a personal benefit to low income
  on eliminating the disparity

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Conclusion

• The disparity among low income and wealthier
  populations in health due to nutrition will be
  not being so easy to eliminate. That is why
  Shopping smart and education about nutrition is
  the key solution to this disparity. Doing
  research on food and making the old fashion
  shopping list with the help of technology is
  guaranteed to save low income people money and
  most of all sustain s healthy life

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Resources

• Federal Government USDA, NIH, DHHS, Census
  Bureau
• State Local Seattle-King County DOH,
  Metropolitan Chicago Information Center, Dallas
  County DOH
• Scholarly Doctor Reports, business profiles