I've read about and lived in food deserts for 50 years. During 20 years as a psychologist, worked mostly with poor people living in such places. Of the 3000 I saw for evaluations, at least 2/3 asked questions about food. Some were living in their cars, another in a tent along a local river.

I never came across one who wasn't able, after learning about simple foods and principles of the kind Rebecca writes of, to change their food habits for the better.

That's a personal story (though in regard to several thousand people) and I've often come across research that contradicts the frequent idea of eating well being a matter of "privilege."

We usually think of (correctly) disinformation as being primarily a problem on the far right. There. are no doubt real problems regarding theinability to see one's privilege, but disinformation about it exists on the left. I'm sorry but if you look carefully enough at the research, it contradicts. thisidea just as 90+% of it contradicts a similar set of. disinformation, about keto.

No matter who you are or where you live, the primary challenge with regard to eating is self awareness and self regulation. Rebecca addresses this impecably in this essay.