Robyn O’Brien: Real Food
Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a ‘Real Food’ evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a ‘typical’ breakfast.
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ABOUT Robyn O’Brien
“Robyn O’Brien is a critically-acclaimed author, researcher and mother of four who has leveraged her experience as a food industry analyst to uncovering how one of life’s most basic activities, eating has become a risk to our health.
In the years that she has been a speaker and a nationally recognised author, Robyn has delivered inspiring messages to thousands of people throughout America, from entrepreneurs to members of Congress to corporate professionals to mothers’ groups, schools and in universities.
Her meticulously detailed research sheds light on policy, financial incentives and the skyrocketing rates of cancer, autism, obesity and allergies. In her first book, ‘The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It’, using the resources and skills that she developed as an analyst in the food and technology industries.
Robyn diagnoses the failing American food system and its financially-driven incentive structure that has allowed additives into the American food supply that have either been banned or labeled from foods in other developed countries, especially those served to children.”
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