'Food desert' dwellers have worse heart-disease risk profiles

The USDA website also explains that making nutritious, affordable food more readily accessible in local grocery stores in disadvantaged communities where residents may not have a car is part of the Let's Move! initiative, launched by Michel Obama, which is dedicated to stopping childhood obesity within a generation, and the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, launched by the Obama administration, provides financing for developing and equipping grocery stores, small retailers, corner stores, and farmers' markets selling healthy food in underserved areas. (author abstract)