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A comment on More Women Than Men Are Obese in America, and Gap Is Widening (2015). Parent comment

Re:More Women Than Men Are Obese in America, and Gap Is Wide... by WalterSear on Sunday July 17, 2016 @02:24PM (#12111138)
Ergo, food deserts aren't a valid way to look at the situation, since availability isn't the fundamental problem.
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Re:More Women Than Men Are Obese in America, and Gap Is Wide... by ethbro on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:39PM (#12118203)
That doesn't following from my way of looking at it.

Your view as I understand it: research shows that availability doesn't change dietary habits over the short term, therefore something other than availability is the fundamental problem.

My view: the research you've linked shows that availability doesn't change dietary habits over the short term, but that might still mean that availability is a fundamental problem over the longer term or still a necessary but not sufficient fundamental problem over the short term (e.g. maybe it takes availability + education).

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