This 24 page booklet will help your studentsto be able to define what we mean by the term ‘food deserts’ and outlineresearch which has attempted to identify these within the United Kingdom. They willbe able to explain how the location of food outlets within the United Kingdomand America influence the geography of affordable health food baskets andidentify what is meant by ‘obesogenic environments’. In addition they will beable to establish whether the physical environment has an impact on tendency toexercise and whether there is a link between social deprivation and fast-foodavailability.

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