Americans who live near a "food swamp" may have a higher risk of suffering a stroke, a preliminary study finds. A number of studies have looked at the health consequences of living in a so-called food ...

SAN ANTONIO — Living in food deserts and food swamps — areas with no access to healthy food, and areas with a plethora of unhealthy food options — may raise the risk of dying from postmenopausal ...

You’ve heard of food deserts, but now researchers are looking at a serious issue called “food swamps”— which is where communities are inundated with mostly only unhealthy options for people to eat.

Adults ages 50 and older who lived near dense fast food and unhealthy food environments known as "food swamps" had a higher risk of stroke compared to those who lived in areas with fewer retail and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Hill) — Adults ages 50 and older who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Residents of “food swamp” communities, which have a higher prevalence of fast-food options than healthy options, ...

U.S. counties where fast-food joints exceedingly outnumber supermarkets and other fresh food options -- so-called food swamps -- were more likely to have high mortality rates from cancers related to ...

A few generations ago, the variety of foods now available to the average Rhode Islander would have been as hard to fathom as the smartphone app that delivers homemade Uyghur-style noodles to your ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has started the process of adding more regulation to U.S. food markets. Undoubtedly, Kennedy believed this would bring to heel what has been dubbed “Big Food,” the large food ...