What is a Food Desert?
- 23 million low income people in the United States live in areas without access to affordable healthy food options.
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-Poor diet increases a person’s risk for all kinds of health issues, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure.
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-Childhood nutrition deficiencies lead to cognitive difficulties, weaker immune systems, and stunted growth.
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Our MISSION
Urbanhealthconnect is dedicated providing the opportunity for a healthy lifestyle to all communities regardless of socioeconomic background. We are currently focused on drawing attention to urban food deserts that lack the foods necessary for a good and healthy diet. Food insecurity has been increasing dramatically over the past few months, and UrbanHealthConnect aims to combat this problem by any means available.
About the FOunDEr
Hello, my name is Jay Noh, founder of Urbanhealthconnect. I’m seventeen years old, and I am currently a senior attending Tenafly High School. Ever since I was young I always had a heart to serve others. I have gone on missions trips to Brooklyn, Boston, and Merida, Mexico. I have also joined trips in which I would give out food to those in need. The reason I started this non-profit organization is because I noticed that the problem of food deserts is rarely seen as a very big issue, when in reality it should be. I wish for this non-profit to be able to show that food deserts are a big problem even though it may not seem like it at a surface level, and I also wish to help those in these food deserts.
