The type of rural person who gets fat and the type of reporter who's looking to make a 'story' out of people outside the city both seem to agree on that point. That food desert means needing to stock up on tons and tons of unhealthy food. Where the pantry of everyone I knew in areas where food was scarce had things stocked out like a bunker. Tons of healthy but non perishable items. Beans, rice, etc etc.