Knowing which ingredients to avoid when eating out

Robyn O'Brien, Author of The Unhealthy Truth, shares advice on the most important foods to avoid eating when eating out in order to avoid eating foods with GMOs
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Knowing which ingredients to avoid when eating out

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How can someone avoid some of these ingredients when they're eating out, whether at a friend's house or at a restaurant? I think some of the first steps that you can do is try to avoid products that contain corn or soy, because those are two of the crops that have been so heavily engineered. They've become so pervasive in our food supply, and when you're at a friend's house, or you're at a restaurant, it's pretty easy to navigate around those ingredients. Other steps that you can take are really just to focus on not making the "perfect" the "enemy of the good", and if you're doing a good job at home, and you're mindful of what you're shopping for and what's going into your grocery cart, you have to have the flexibility and the grace to navigate the outside world too.

Robyn O'Brien, Author of The Unhealthy Truth, shares advice on the most important foods to avoid eating when eating out in order to avoid eating foods with GMOs

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Robyn O'Brien

Author, The Unhealthy Truth

Robyn O'Brien is recognized by Teri Hatcher, Kourtney Kardashian, Kristen Bell and moms around the world.  She has been called “food’s Erin Brockovich” by The New York Times and has been named by SHAPE Magazine as a “Women To Shape the World”, by Forbes Woman as one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter,” and by The Discovery Channel as one of its 15 Top Visionaries. She is a former food industry analyst, author, mother of four and the founder of AllergyKids Foundation. Robyn graduated as the top woman in her class from business school before working as a financial analyst that covered the food industry. She is regarded as an expert on children’s health policy.  She has appeared on CNN, The Dr Oz show, Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC's Kudlow Report, Fox News and the Ricki Lake Show and has appeared in several documentary films, including Food Patriots, Unacceptable Levels, Genetic Roulette.  

Robyn’s work has been recognized by individuals such as Yoko Ono, Robert Kennedy Jr., Ted Turner and Prince Charles. She is the founder of the visionary organization allergykidsfoundation.org which is focused on restoring the integrity of the food supply and the health of children, the author of The Unhealthy Truth (Random House 2010) and her work is seen in Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner’s 2012 video, Labels Matter, and in Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.

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How can someone avoid some of these ingredients when they're eating out, whether at a friend's house or at a restaurant? I think some of the first steps that you can do is try to avoid products that contain corn or soy, because those are two of the crops that have been so heavily engineered. They've become so pervasive in our food supply, and when you're at a friend's house, or you're at a restaurant, it's pretty easy to navigate around those ingredients. Other steps that you can take are really just to focus on not making the "perfect" the "enemy of the good", and if you're doing a good job at home, and you're mindful of what you're shopping for and what's going into your grocery cart, you have to have the flexibility and the grace to navigate the outside world too.