A new study shows that healthy food options are limited in the communities around each of the state’s 10 historically Black colleges and universities.
Convenience stores, liquor stories, bakeries and candy shops are more plentiful within the 15-mile walking radius of each campus than grocery stores and markets with fresh produce. According to the research, 76% of the 1,414 stores offered unfavorable options, compared to just 24% that were favorable. Host Frank Stasio talks to Derrick Sauls, department chair of public health and exercise science at St. Augustine’s University, about the limited healthy food access around his own university, as well as his contributions to the larger study.
