Improving fruit and vegetable accessibility, purchasing, and consumption to advance nutrition security and health equity in the united states

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With cigarette smoking rates on the decline, poor diet is now the most prevalent modifiable risk factor for chronic disease in the United_States (U.S.). Concerned with these inequities, the United_States Department of Agriculture (USDA) outlined plans to also pioneer nutrition security efforts in America in March 2022. Many are moving away from the "food desert" concept (which solely describes poor or absent accessibility to supermarkets and large grocery stores), mainly because interventions aiming to improve FV purchasing and consumption by increasing access to supermarkets/grocery stores have produced inconclusive or null evidence, and . . .

 



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