A Quote by Harrison Barnes

Food accessibility is a health crisis that has always affected underserved communities.

Harrison Barnes

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Food Health Accessibility Affected Always Communities Crisis Underserved

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Harrison Barnes
American - Basketball Player
Born: May 30, 1992

The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

Michael Pollan

We will never address the race-based, systemic barriers to health care, equal housing and education without investing in underserved communities.

Cal Cunningham

By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.

Chris Gibson

Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.

Christy Turlington

Our most historically underserved communities have been hit the hardest by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Many in these communities have not had the option of not going to work or working remotely, increasing their risk of exposure to coronavirus.

Alex Padilla

If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat

Michael Pollan

All communities, and low-income communities especially because of food insecurity and lack of access to healthy foods, need more farmers markets, need more community gardens and urban farms. It would be great if people living in communities had the tools and resources to grow food in their own backyard - community-based food systems.

Bryant Terry

I'd like to open doors for underserved communities and minorities in entrepreneurship.

Troy Carter

Better access to healthy foods in underserved communities will help children develop properly, help senior citizens stay healthy and help reduce long-term health-care costs for those that opt for this type of diet over eating unhealthy foods.

Kay Ivey

Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.

Charles Eisenstein

Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.

Elizabeth Flock

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence,' and it's also been about 'food as health,' that food is vitality.

John Mackey

I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.

Deborah K. Ross

Far too often, jobs and opportunities seem out of reach for young adults, especially in underserved, minority and low-income communities.

Kevin Faulconer

Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.

Ertharin Cousin

We have people that live in rural remote communities. They live in Indigenous communities in Queensland up to the Torres Strait and we have an obligation, a duty as a federation to ensure that all of these communities, all of these families have access to health.

Annastacia Palaszczuk

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