Barriers To A Healthy Diet: Healthy Foods Missing From Stores In Low-Income Black Neighborhoods

Excusinators working overtime.

Most convenience stores have a wide variety of chips, colorful candies and bottles of sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages. While shoppers can buy calorie-heavy foods wrapped in pretty packages in these locations, what they usually can't find are the fresh produce, whole grains and low-fat dairy products necessary for a healthy diet.

There are no healthy foods, there is only eating healthily.

This requires eating to a BMI of between 18.5 and 24.9 (on a population basis.)

The source of the Calories is immaterial.