A Lot Of Health Issues Get Blamed On Food Choices. But Maybe Something Else Is At Fault.

Like food access. If healthy options aren’t easily available to you, it’s pretty darn hard to “choose” them. In what world is it OK for people who live 10 miles apart to have such drastically different opportunities for health?

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Melinda Clark

Apr 23, 2014

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