Balanced Diets

Audrey Sanchez

We're giving awards for what?!

This morning as I was going through my daily nutrition Google Alerts, one story caught my eye. It was about a school district that won a...

Andrea Jacobson

Big Food profits, children pay the price.

Big Food is robbing our children of their future—our future—right in front of our eyes. And it must change now.

Sarah Landman

From High Cholesterol to Healthy Lifestyle Advocate: A Provider's Perspective

We recently had the opportunity to interview Kansas City's only Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, Trey Bennett, to learn...

Audrey Sanchez

I no longer believe education is the best solution...(part 2)

In Part One of this series, I shared the top two reasons I’ve come to believe nutrition and public health advocacy are more effective...

Audrey Sanchez

I no longer believe education is the best solution. (Part 1)

In this two-part series, I’m sharing five reasons I’ve come to believe we can’t educate our way out of the current diet-related disease...

Madeline Bennett

How One Simple Menu Swap Can Prevent Chronic Disease

At Balanced, our central ask of school districts is that they enrich their menus by adding nutrient-dense plant-based proteins and...

Madeline Bennett

Three Ways to Put the EAT-Lancet Report into Action

This week, the EAT-Lancet Commission released its first report outlining a set of universal, evidence-based benchmarks for the global...