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Obesity in the United States

I plan to give information about the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI). I want to find out what exactly it was, if it worked and if it's still a working progress. I also want to write about how it helped the obesity rates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854743/

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/chi.2011.0113?journalCode=chi

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10016.html

 Healthy Food Financing Initiative 

There are many neighborhoods that have very little access to farmers markets or places where they can access fresh vegetables, fruits, and other healthy foods for reasonable prices. These areas are called "food deserts", and these are the places where a lot of obesity can be traced too. In 2011 The Obama Administration introduced a $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative, the goal of the program is to "create jobs and economic development, and establish market opportunities for farmers and ranchers," as described by the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack. The initiative was also going to work along with Michelle Obama' s "Let's Move" campaign, which is a movement to help end obesity in children.