By
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Funding Area
Improving Diabetes Prevention and Management
Date
July 12, 2008
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation policy brief highlights strategies for city planners, nonprofit groups, and private business to improve availability of fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods and attracting supermarkets to undeserved communities.
Understanding the possible connections between access to healthy food, what families prepare and eat at home, and obesity can help guide policymakers toward potential environmental solutions. The report was produced by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Healthy Eating Research initiative.