On Television, Latino Children See More Unhealthy Food Ads

Watching television makes 5-year-old Giovany Guerra hungry. “When he watches a McDonald’s commercial, he tells me, ‘take me to McDonald’s,’” said the boy’s mother, Sandra Guerra, 38. The stay-at-home mom keeps a bowl of fruit where Giovany can reach when he gets cravings while watching “Pinky Dinky Doo,” a Spanish language television show on Univision. But she says her round-cheeked son does not want fruit. He wants cold cereal and hamburgers. In other words, he wants the food he sees in the television commercials. “He asks me for everything he... Read The Rest →

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  • by Rosa M. Ramirez

To eat and live in a New Orleans food desert

Employee at Family Ranch Market stocks milk and juices. The market is a gas station in East New Orleans. Leonard Richardson rides two buses to the nearest Walmart, nearly six miles from his Marigny apartment. Richardson, 71, takes the weekly hourlong commute, not to buy clothes or electronic gadgets, but to get produce like green beans, bell peppers and celery. Rachel Frommeyer lives in the same neighborhood. Instead of traveling hours to buy groceries, Frommeyer, 30, shops at a local convenience store, the Super Ten. Her usual groceries: canned tuna,... Read The Rest →

  • ABOUT THE REPORTER

    Rosa Ramirez is passionate about telling stories from the communities she covers. And that shows in her work. For the past five years, Rosa has worked as a reporter for various publications across the United States, including the Salt Lake Tribune, Hispanic Link News Service, Birmingham Post-Herald, Rocky Mountain News, Daytona Beach News-Journal and HealthyCal.org.

 
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