Conquering Food Deserts With Green Carts

Summary

In the article, "Conquering Food Deserts With Green Carts", David Bornstein, argues about how low income people who live far from supermarket can get foods. The problem is that people who live in rural area or inner city eat foods which are available at the corner shop or convenience store and are rarely healthy. This unhealthy eating correlates with obesity. According to the author, there are two solutions for lack of access to healthy foods: bring in new produce vendors or add product to existing vendors. The author explains about New York City's Green Cart, a Healthy Bodegas Initiative.and EBT system as example of solutions.

The author also shows the questions "Why don't supermarket open there if there is read demand?"

To answer this, the author shows one example that shows opening shop in inner city  without government fund or grant is impossible. Then, he explains about how funds work for problem if government commit more funds to subsidize for grocery store in low income area.

In conclusion, the author claims these study must be considered the research that suggest that low income people suffer from inequitable access to foods.

Summary and response - soda tax-

-Summary
  First, this article talks about how bad sugary beverages. Marlene B. Schwartz says there are many researchs that say sugary drinks realy increase risk of obesity and other disease and insists american will be healthier if they reduce the consumotion of sugary drinks. However, drink industry questions whether sugary juice really link to obesity because obesity rate is increasing even though consumption of soft drinks is decreasing. Lastly,this article shows the proposal for a federal tax on sugary drinks; sugary beverage would impose a 1-cent tax on each teaspoon of sugar in soft drinks.

-Response
As this article says, sugary beverages definitly have bad infuence to our health and some state has proposal to regulate or impose tax. However, I don't think tax on juice will really work well.
People should be responsible for their health. Probably people won't stop drinking sugary juice until "they" make their decision that they stop drinking it for their health.not "government".

Summary and response - food regulation-

-Should foods linked to diet-related disease be regulated?
-Summary

This article shows two opinions about this topic.
   One side claims foods that linked to diet-related disease should be regulated. The author shows some opinions by experts. Deborah Cohen, a physician and researcher, insists goverment should regulate foods that linked to diet-related disease as government regulate alcohol and tobacco because overeating is at least as harmful as drinking. She also government should make policy protect us from triggers that make us eat when we are not hungry. Robert Lusting, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor of pediatrics, also cites the regulation of alcohol and tobacco. He claims we should limit consumption of sugar as we limit alcohol or tobacco. Both experts argue that we should think about sugar as well as alcohol and tobacco and that government should act because food industry won't do it.
  The other side claims that government shouldn't regulate because it denies consumer's choice. Elaine Kolish, vice president of CFBAI says protection for children is "a role for a nanny, not the government". Michael D. Tanner, a senior fellow, claims food taxes is bad idea because it is anti-responsibility. This side respects consumer's choice.

-Response

I agree with that government shouldn't regulate foods that linked to diet-related disease. As some experts say in this article, it is consumer's choice and people should take responsibility about what they eat. Some experts claims foods should be regulated because they are as harmful as alcohol or tobacco. However, I think foods and alcohol or tobacco has difference. Foods are essential for people while alcohol or tobacco are not essential and they are for our pleasure.Therefore, I think people should be able to be responsible for at least our essential things.

Fed Up

summary
"Fed up", document program which is produced in 2014, appeals to government, foods industry, and people, especially American, to face and know how bad their foods life style are and what government and foods industry do in long American food history. This shows some children who try to lose weight to be healthy by exercising. However, they can't lose weight so much by exercising. Their weight were almost same even when they did exercise. However, their obesity isn't only children or his/her parents. Government and foods industry really relate to this problem. Government have been avoiding to face this problem and always made new method to lose weight by just changing words. That new method's surface seems to work to solve this children's problem.
The evidences that the government shows prove that government always avoid to think about solution and also what kind of trap there are around people. For example, this film shows relation between "sugar" and "fat". When products has less fat, it has more sugar. This film is also trying to make people think about health and what to believe because there are many "fake healthy foods"

response
Actually I saw that situation when I went high school in New York. In every lunch time, students ate french fries,hamburger, pizza, or chips. I was shocked about that. However, I also felt they were addicted to junk foods. Some of people seemed to walk really hard because they were too fat.
However, they didn't stop eating any snacks even in short break time. At that time, I wondered why some adults around them stop them from eating too much. However, I changed my mind after watching this film. As the film shows, Government or some company which have rights to decide rule in country have been avoiding to make effective solution. How can children recover from that problem? It must be really hard. Even if parents buy "half fat" foods, it has "double sugar". The environment around children make them fat really easily and children are caught in such a trap easily because they're still young. I understand now about it is not obese person's fault.

・Why does government make effective solution, why has government been avoiding it for long time?