lol, think what you want. But do you seriously think I'm going to be convinced by a couple of blog posts and a single study?
What about a meta analysis of 24 different studies conducted in countries across the world?
We reviewed the literature on neighborhood disparities in access to fast-food outlets and convenience stores. Low-income neighborhoods offered greater access to food sources that promote unhealthy eating. The distribution of fast-food outlets and convenience stores differed by the racial/ethnic characteristics of the neighborhood.
How about the longitudinal study across 15 years cited by the slate article?
Fast food consumption was related to fast food availability among low-income respondents, particularly within 1.00 to 2.99 km of home among men (coefficient, 0.34; 95% confidence interval, 0.16-0.51). Greater supermarket availability was generally unrelated to diet quality and fruit and vegetable intake, and relationships between grocery store availability and diet outcomes were mixed.
How about an analysis of Baltimore?
Predominantly black and lower-income neighborhoods have a lower availability of healthy foods than white and higher-income neighborhoods due to the differential placement of types of stores as well as differential offerings of healthy foods within similar stores. These differences may contribute to racial and economic health disparities.
Or St. Louis?
The spatial distribution of fast food restaurants and supermarkets that provide options for meeting recommended dietary intake differed according to racial distribution and poverty rates. Mixed-race or white high-poverty areas and all African American areas (regardless of income) were less likely than predominantly white higher-income communities to have access to foods that enable individuals to make healthy choices.
Look, I could go back and forth with you all day where we just sort of pick and choose the studies we like to support our presuppositions, but I just don't care enough. I will say before checking out that physical proximity to the grocery store was only a portion of my thesis there. I also cited time constraints and lack of personal transportation. But hey since you so easily proved I was wrong on grocery stores I guess we should just assume that the poor just don't eat right because they're a bunch of fuck ups.
The reality is that most poor Americans are not so poor that they can't afford to overeat. I know this because I grew up very poor and know for real, not just through your academic studies, that eating fast food and junk food everyday is more expensive than just cooking grocery-bought food.
blah blah blah, I don't care. Just like you wouldn't care if I said I that also grew up in poverty with a mother who was a waitress up until her 50s when her body just couldn't handle any more, that I spent years sharing a living room with my brother because we couldn't afford an apartment with more than two bedrooms which went to my single mother and my sister stayed in the other one. That I literally have fucking memories of buying groceries from the fucking convenience store, hamburger helper obviously, because even if the grocery store was technically only a mile or so away we didn't want to walk that far carrying groceries or by taking the bus when the convenience store was so much closer. The reason I didn't mention it is because it's fucking irrelevant when looking broadly at the population.
But no, I'm sure your personal experience is somehow justified as the first piece of anecdotal evidence in the history of science that magically cancels out the lifetimes of research and careers that have gone into looking at this problem from both a policy level and as a public health concern.