{"id":168,"date":"2011-07-29T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2011-07-29T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:56:55","slug":"food-deserts-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/food-deserts-in-north-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Deserts in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DFWFoodDesert.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"169\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/food-deserts-in-north-texas\/dfwfooddesert\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DFWFoodDesert.png?fit=997%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"997,779\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DFWFoodDesert\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DFWFoodDesert.png?fit=600%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169\" title=\"DFWFoodDesert\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DFWFoodDesert.png?resize=538%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DFWFoodDesert.png?w=997&amp;ssl=1 997w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DFWFoodDesert.png?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image is a screenshot from the USDA website &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/data\/fooddesert\/fooddesert.html\">Food Desert Locator<\/a>&#8220;. \u00a0Go to the website for the interactive map, where each area is clickable to see the statistics.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Food_desert\">wikipedia.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<strong>food desert<\/strong>\u00a0is any area in the industrialised world where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain. It is prevalent in rural as well as urban areas and is most prevalent in low-socioeconomic minority communities, and is associated with a variety of diet-related health problems.<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Food_desert#cite_note-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Food deserts are also linked with\u00a0<a title=\"Supermarket shortage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supermarket_shortage\">supermarket shortage<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image is a screenshot from the USDA website &#8220;Food Desert Locator&#8220;. \u00a0Go to the website for the interactive map, where each area is clickable to see the statistics. From wikipedia.org: A\u00a0food desert\u00a0is any area in the industrialised world where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain. It is prevalent in rural as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-food-desert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jPFc-2I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northtexasvegetablegardeners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}