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Ted Eytan
Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work? - The Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...
To date, no study has found a causal relationship between improving access to healthy foods and improving health outcomes. “You have more people starting to poke holes into what’s a simple thesis, that poor people are overweight because they lack access to healthy food,” Lee says. “My concern is that we might be investing in something that might not be very promising, at the cost of not investing in something that works.” - Ted Eytan