Lavern and Bonita Evans cook a dinner of chicken with spring vegetables following a recipe that was provided by HEALing Community Center at their home in College Park. The Evans, who suffer from obesity, diabetes and hypertension, live in one of Georgia's 35 food deserts, which experts say weigh heavily on the state's chronic disease burden, costing it billions of dollars annually in diabetes care, treatment and management alone. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM