Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help
- ISBN-10
- 0226921921
- ISBN-13
- 9780226921921
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 265
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-03-15
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Chin Jou
Description
Supersizing Urban America reveals how the US government has been, and remains, a major contributor to America s obesity epidemic. Government policies, targeted food industry advertising, and other factors helped create and reinforce fast food consumption in America s urban communities. Historian Chin Jou uncovers how predominantly African-American neighborhoods went from having no fast food chains to being deluged. She lays bare the federal policies that helped to subsidize the expansion of the fast food industry in America s cities and explains how fast food companies have deliberately and relentlessly marketed to urban, African-American consumers. These developments are a significant factor in why Americans, especially those in urban, low-income, minority communities, have become disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic."
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