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In reporting the story yesterday about Kern being No. 3 for its concentration of fast food and convenience stores, I came across a couple of buzz words. Fast food jungle. Food desert. Considering we live in neither a jungle nor desert — well, most of us anyway — I came up with my own: calorie valley. A new study released today has Kern third, among the most populous California counties, with 5.23 times as many fast-food restaurants and convenience stores than supermarkets and produce vendors. The researchers argue that this results higher prevalence of diabetes and obesity. Kern was first for diabetes prevalence, among the counties surveyed, at 10.2 percent. For obesity, it’s fourth with 28.2 percent of residents obese. (Read "Study: Kern No. 3 for fast-food, convenience stores" in today's Californian. The study, which was done by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, PolicyLink and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, is...
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