The South Los Angeles region is known as a “built out” community with limited sections available for development, many with irregular shapes and sizes. Restricting fast food restaurant development to preserve South LA’s limited land for healthier uses is a strategy that can have a positive impact on the community.
In the reading, the researchers explored how meals purchased away from home continue to play an increasingly important role in American diets. Even though fast food can lead to higher body mass index scores, which contributes to obesity and related illnesses, there are an inadequate number of studies that have focused on the availability of healthy options in a community’s nutritional resource environment. Also, examined the availability of restaurants and food options within these restaurants in more affluent and less affluent areas of Los Angeles County.
They hypothesized that residents in South Los Angeles region would have fewer healthy options in neighborhood restaurants than residents of West Los Angeles. Throughout the study, the researchers conducted community assessment activities as part of the economic intervention.
I believe that in order to gain a greater comprehension of this complex problem, one first has to understand the array of choices available in different communities may help public health advocates develop a strategy to reduce the adverse health effects of meals purchased away from home for groups at elevated risk. It turns out that the research findings demonstrated the need to support further economic development in poorer areas of the South Los Angeles region. Based off of the research findings I think that it’s a great idea to just revamp the existing restaurants and convenience stores to healthier options. Therefore, the local businesses would hopefully be able to thrive without having too many franchise cooperation takeover.
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