Not Just in English Anymore: Good Nutrition, Buena Nutrición . . . Everyone Deserves a Healthy Diet

Abstract

Many immigrants to the United States face not only a language barrier for being able to purchase food but also cultural and socioeconomic barriers. Immigrants often cannot read English and are significantly handicapped in their access to nutritional information. Additionally, many new residents of the US face significant socioeconomic barriers, such as the inability to access available government programs and living in food deserts or food swamps. Food deserts are those areas with a lack of availability to sufficient food and food swamps are those areas where the available food is high calorie but nutritionally lacking.