To reiterate what Donna said, we know that in our community, in particular, the vulnerable women who are attending our program tend to live in what we refer to as grocery store deserts: they live many kilometres from a grocery store, but they live just a few metres away from a 7-Eleven store or another convenience store. Often there are really small food budgets for folks who are living in poverty, so when they have to spend seven dollars on four litres of milk and, as someone else pointed out, you can buy two litres of pop for $1.99, it's sort of done out of necessity. They are often making choices that they may even realize are not the healthiest, but because of their access that's what they are forced to do. You cannot feed a family very well when all you can do is go to a convenience store or when you're buying a single apple at a time, whereas a grocery store is miles away and you don't have a vehicle to get there. I think that's a big part of it.
In terms of activity, what we see often with our participants is that poverty tends to really defeat people. When they are living constantly in a cycle of trying to make do with not quite enough, they seem to almost end up in a state of ennui, where they kind of continue to do what they are doing and they don't make those attempts to improve their health unless they're encouraged. That's why I think we see programs such as ours that are taking that strength-based and non-judgmental approach to support people to make small changes—a little bit at a time with what families can manage—and then they build on those.