the community. He could also offer a small incentive to store owners who stop by his office to view the brief nutrition videos he offers his patients to promote consistent messaging in the community around these products.
A Way Forward
Improving the diets of people who live in food deserts is a complicated problem at the intersection of culture, education, and economics. Dr D will clearly need to collaborate with his patients and with leaders in the community to improve the availability and intake of nutritious foods. He should continue to learn more about making nutritious foods available in order to support initiatives based on scientific evidence and follow the opinions in the AMA Code, which provide a great deal of guidance related to this complicated problem.
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