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Health & Nutrition
Educating Americans on low-cost healthy diets.
Solomon
The Process
 The project took many weeks to compile enough facts
to backup my thesis.
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Eating Right Every Day
 This disparity between low income and wealthier
populations in nutrition has been caused by
socioeconomic factors include income, food prices,
accessibility and nutrition knowledge. This gap can be
closed by educating Americans about nutrition and
healthy low-cost eating habits, improving government
programs and encouraging smart shopping and food
consumption.
The Food Pyramid
Steps to a healthier you
GRAINS
VEGETABLES
FRUITS
OILS
MILK
MEAT & BEANS
Low income
Vary your veggies
 Food has become more expensive and therefore
difficult to afford, especially for the people in poverty.
 Incomes of the poor and in promoting food
consumption hbut not nutrition
 A typical school menu will include food commodities
unwanted by restaurants and other major food services.
Accessibility
Focus on fruits
 Dallas’ Wards 7 and 8 only have one grocery store per
70,000 people which causes congestion in stores and
probably frequents sell outs of food
 Chicago, Illinois supermarkets numbers are low in the
about 1 million populated Southside compared to the
Northside
 In Los Angeles Where 10-20% of household income is less
than the $35,000/yr, there are over 3 times as many
supermarkets as in those where 60-70% of the
households earn less than $35,000/yr.
Convenience Vs. Grocery Stores
Results
Know your fats
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Food-related health
conditions bring in medical
expenses, unemployment,
disability, and premature
deaths Discuss how much
children should eat daily
and what foods contain oils
and fats.
The top four killer diseases in
America related to food.
Trans fat #1 Killer of African
American high among
other populations.
Solutions
Long Term
 Economic changes in government and commercial
arenas will improve financial conditions among low
income people
 Focusing on agribusiness strategies will help close the
nutrition gap
Short Term
 Educating and encouraging health programs that will
instruct people about low-cost diet habits
 Smart shopping a personal benefit to low income on
eliminating the disparity
Education
Educating and encouraging health programs that will
instruct people about low-cost diet habits
 Culture based cookbooks with healthy alternatives
 Encourage children to eat foods in each group to meet
their daily requirements.
Shop Smart
1. Smart shopping a personal benefit to low income on
eliminating the disparity
Conclusion
 The disparity among low income and wealthier
populations in health due to nutrition will be not being so
easy to eliminate. That is why Shopping smart and
education about nutrition is the key solution to this
disparity. Doing research on food and making the old
fashion shopping list with the help of technology is
guaranteed to save low income people money and
most of all sustain s healthy life
Resources
 Federal Government; USDA, NIH, DHHS, Census Bureau
 State & Local: Seattle-King County DOH, Metropolitan
Chicago Information Center, Dallas County DOH
 Scholarly Doctor Reports, business profiles