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In Dekalb County, the rate of diabetes is over 30%.

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Hypertension, very similar.

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If you take a drive through the zip code of 30032,

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you may ride for a while

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before you find a place that specifically

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has fresh fruit and vegetables

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which means racial and ethnic approaches

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to community health.

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My mother was really rapidly declining

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due to, in no small part, to diabetes.

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Our program allows participants to come in

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and to work at least in two dimensions:

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that is the fitness, and then with the nutrition.

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I really feel that many of the members of our community,

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particularly those who are seniors, are overlooked.

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I'm very passionate

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when I drive into that community every day

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that I'm going to give it the best that I can.

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Because if someone had intervened for my family,

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their outcome might have been different.

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We're bringing healthy food to our communities.

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When you look at the reasons

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why "food deserts" exist,

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we see a large concentration of them

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in the south part of the county.

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Fresh on Dek is one of the core

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initiatives of the REACH initiative.

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"Food deserts" are low income areas

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that do not have access to healthy food options.

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There is a lot of fast food restaurants,

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as well as smaller retailers that do not

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necessarily have fresh fruits and vegetables.

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There are a lot of issues that you can have

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with heart disease, with diabetes,

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obesity and things like that

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that can be highly impacted by your diet.

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So we have strategically identified

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partners within the community.

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So the mobile farmers market

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could stop to provide fresh fruits and vegetables.

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I'm really proud of the work that 

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we're doing to bring healthy foods to our communities.

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We are improving health outcomes

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for the citizens of DeKalb County, Georgia.