{"id":9867,"date":"2022-04-28T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/28\/the-food-desert-concept-missed-the-mark-sociologist-argues\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:47:35","slug":"the-food-desert-concept-missed-the-mark-sociologist-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-food-desert-concept-missed-the-mark-sociologist-argues\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;food desert&#8221; concept missed the mark, sociologist argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of &#8220;food deserts,&#8221; which described the scarcity of grocery stores and other sources of healthy foods, was a popular target a decade ago for the cause of obesity in low-income neighborhoods. Now, Ken Kolb, professor of sociology at Furman, says food deserts were a red herring. In his new book, &#8220;Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate,&#8221; Kolb argues the problems are much more complicated. He writes about this in an essay on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/cafe\/urban-renewal-food-retail?\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of &#8220;food deserts,&#8221; which described the scarcity of grocery stores and other sources of healthy foods, was a popular target a decade ago for the cause of obesity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}