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A Food Desert Community
A food desert is a community where the residents have little or no access to fresh, affordable, healthy foods. A place that could be considered a food desert near me would be Warner Robins, a densely populated urban area. Food deserts impact our lives because you cannot be healthy without fresh affordable foods, and our bodies need a certain amount of nutrients from those fresh foods. Without access to these foods it can do harm to ones health. Also it effects low income families that do not have access to fresh foods, especially the children in low income families that are not receiving the necessary nutrients from these foods. One potential solution could be to encourage others to start a garden wither it be on a large scale or a smaller

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