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Giving the poor easy access to healthy food doesn’t mean they’ll buy it

by Margot Sanger-Katz

In 2010, the Morrisania section of the Bronx was what is commonly called a food desert: The low-income neighborhood in New York’s least-healthy county had no nearby grocery store, and few places where its residents could easily buy fresh food.

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