Food for thought: How your mindset can make healthy food more available on social media

In today’s world, our diets are often packed with fats and sugars. Our ancient instinct to crave calorie-rich foods, which once helped us survive, now leads to harmful health side-effects.

To counter this, food content creators on social media have been trying to encourage healthy eating and healthy eating content.

But here’s the kicker — this content doesn’t get much engagement. Instead, posts that show unhealthy, high-calorie foods get more likes, shares and comments. This popularity of junk food online may place content creators and algorithms to show more of the same, tilting our view of “normal” eating habits towards

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Food Deserts: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

Food deserts are communities that have poor access to healthy, affordable foods (1, 2).

Also known as healthy food priority areas, food deserts are concentrated in low-income and historically marginalized areas throughout the United States (1, 2, 3, 4).

In food deserts, healthy foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, dairy, peas, beans, meat, and fish are often expensive or unobtainable. The lack of access to healthy foods in these communities translates to health disparities and high rates of chronic disease (4, 5, 6).

This article examines the causes, health effects, and potential

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