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 Food Inc. is documentary that talks about a wide variety of topics that deal with the different issues surrounding the fast food industry. A lot of the movie explains the ways fast food is processed and how extremely unhealthy it is for us. I want to narrow in on the part of the video which features a family in poor health.  This family is of low socioeconomic status and wants to eat healthy but cannot because healthy food is outside their budget.  It is much easier for them to buy cheap calories at McDonald's than buying fruit, which is more expensive and less filling.  
 Kenner, Robert, Dir. Food Inc.. Magnolia Pictures: 2008, DVD.

This article from TIME magazine specifically talks about food deserts in America.  Many statistics are provided to back the assertion that poor communities are specifically targeted by the fast food industry.  Also, supermarkets tend not to build a store there because they know people cannot afford their food.  So, not only are more than enough fast food restaurants available for the inhabitants, but supermarkets with fresh foods are not available.  Most black and latino Americans live in these areas; more people of these groups tend to have higher obesity rates than white or rich Americans.
 Gray, Steven. "Can America's Urban Food Deserts Bloom?." Time 26 May 2009: n. pag. Web. 2 Apr 2011. <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1900947,00.html>.

This documentary is more about the lack of nutritional value of fast food. Spurlock ate McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to prove that eating too much fast food can make you unhealthy.  Before he started, he was a physically fit man who had no health problems, but after he ate McDonald's, and only McDonald's, for a month, he had a lot of health problems. I can use the information he gathered to prove how people should not only be living on fast food, although it is cheap.
Spurlock, Morgan, Dir. Supersize Me. Samuel Goldwyn Films: 2007, DVD. 

This report from the US Department of Agriculture explains everything a person would want to know about food availability in low-income areas. It provides a lot of facts and statistics about low income households and I can definitely use this to support my argument that more fresh food supermarkets need to be available to them.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/AP/AP036/

A lot of people have the perception that people who are poor are extremely thin and malnourished.  Well, today, most people of low economic status are malnourished, but they're overweight or obese. But then, the author also talks about those who are in fact starving, which he calls "The Bronx Paradox." In the Bronx, there are people who are food insecure and "hungry" and there are people who are food insecure but not hungry. Both are a problem obviously.  This article explains the efforts the city is making the help the latter group of people.
Dolnick, Sam. "The Obesity-Hunger Paradox." New York Times 12 Mar 2010: n. pag. Web. 2 Apr 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/nyregion/14hunger.html?_r=1&src=me>.