Destination Real Food

We Americans are living longer than ever before, on more medications but sicker than ever before. What's going on? Come journey through the explanation of our broken food and medical system in Destination Real Food. Registered Dietitian, Angela Jenkins, weaves the reader through the caveats of bottom line dollar-driven food policy making on a community to national level, the concerns with the current industrialized agricultural model and culminating with what can be accomplished on a personal level, in your own home or back yard. Destination Real Food shows the reader how supporting regenerative, organic agriculture, that which restores the biome of the soil, provides a healthier food option not only for the person consuming it but for our most valuable resource, the earth. This book exemplifies how building a relationship with real food, not that which comes from the larger industrialized model, helps facilitate making the right choice, the easy choice. Come journey along and see what simply daily decisions can be made to ensure not only your personal health and then, how together we impact our local food economies, ecosystem and communities.

We Americans are living longer than ever before, on more medications but sicker than ever before. What's going on? Come journey through the explanation of our broken food and medical system in Destination Real Food. Registered Dietitian, Angela Jenkins, weaves the reader through the caveats of bottom line dollar-driven food policy making on a community to national level, the concerns with the current industrialized agricultural model and culminating with what can be accomplished on a personal level, in your own home or back yard. There is no food transparency with the current food system and it is substantially and negatively influencing our health and the average consumer is unaware. By empowering the reader to become more mindful of decisions around food choices and through making small, incremental changes over time, Destination Real Food shows that supporting regenerative, local food systems effects not only the person making those choices but has a ripple effect in the communities where these choices are made. The American consumer is a part of the largest economic engine on this planet and therefor this journey is one that every American has the opportunity to embark on with the knowledge that where we spend our food dollars, so goes support for that system. Every one of us votes with our fork each and every day but do we think of it in this regard? Destination Real Food shows the reader how supporting regenerative, organic agriculture, that which restores the biome of the soil, provides a healthier food option not only for the person consuming it but for our most valuable resource, the earth. This book exemplifies how building a relationship with real food, not that which comes from the larger industrialized model, helps facilitate making the right choice, the easy choice. Come journey along and see what simply daily decisions can be made to ensure not only your personal health and then, how together we impact our local food economies, ecosystem and communities.

Angela Jenkins has been Registered Dietitian for 32 years in conventional and consulting capacities. During her years as a Pediatric Dietitian and in functional nutrition, she became intrigued by the confusing outcomes of some of her clients and began that deeper dive into root cause to find an explanation. This lead her down the path of understanding how our mismanaged industrialized food system model influences people's health quite negatively in America. Her desire to deepen her understanding inspired her to facilitate the start up of the first food policy council in southwest Missouri. The council brought together 50+ organizations in the southwest Missouri region to complete the first food system assessment of the area which identified gaps in the regional food system that could then be addressed by the community and specifically with regard to pediatric obesity. She was able to draw from her passion for helping people maintain and improve health in the conventional medical system and apply it in the arena where food and policy interface. The assessment became the launching pad for many other projects that support the growth of regional food systems in that area. She comes to table illuminating the ideal that food raised regeneratively not only keeps a body healthy but also nurtures the ecosystems and local economies that keep our communities bonded. Come visit and enjoy the understanding that building a connection between food, regenerative agriculture and putting your hands in the soil, not only supports health but is absolutely dependent on it. She also enjoys encouraging people toward the connection of producing their own food (no matter how great or small the garden or growing operation) and how easily that food can be prepared in the comfort of their own kitchen, making the right choice the easy choice. When she is not playing with food, she can be found wandering the Ozarks mountains, lakes and streams with her dog, Remo. More books, information and products can be found at www.allhealthislocal.com