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Getting Nutrition Science Right | How Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science (Part III)
This is the third and final installment in a series about how food industry meddling biases nutrition science research to its advantage...

Madeline Bennett
5 min read


Amplifiers of Bad Science | How Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science (Part II)
This is the second installment in a series about how food industry meddling biases nutrition science research to its advantage....

Madeline Bennett
7 min read


The Industry Playbook | How Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science (Part I)
This is the first installment in a series about how food industry meddling biases nutrition science research to its advantage and at the ex

Madeline Bennett
7 min read


A Response to The Atlantic’s Bad Nutrition Take
If there’s one thing I can count on, it’s that popular media will continue to circulate feel-good distortions of the nutrition science...

Madeline Bennett
3 min read


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...

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read


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.

Andrea Jacobson
4 min read


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...

Sarah Landman
6 min read


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
5 min read


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...

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read


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
4 min read


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...

Madeline Bennett
4 min read
The Standard American Diet Will Kill Hundreds of Thousands in 2019. Does Anyone Care?
The hardest job of a nutrition advocate is getting people to appreciate the full gravity of our nation’s truly grim health crises. Not...

Madeline Bennett
5 min read


3 Things I’ve Learned After a Year of Advocacy Work at Balanced
Working in nutrition advocacy, it is often tempting to focus on all the problems with our food system that have yet to be solved. As with...

Sarah Landman
3 min read


Hot Take: the USDA doesn't care about children
With the announcement that loosened school nutrition standards are going to allow for increased servings of refined grains,...

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read


The Egg Industry's New Low
Pop quiz: what food product that can’t be labeled nutritious, healthy, relatively low calorie, relatively low fat, or a rich source of...

Audrey Sanchez
2 min read


Hook Them Young
Forty-one years ago, a major broadcast marketing publication printed this: “If you’re selling, Charlie’s Mom is buying. But you’ve got to...

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read


Reading List Suggestions for Understanding the Food System
Instead of focusing exclusively on the state of our food system, I’ve been spending some time trying to figure out how we got to this...

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read


Balanced Menu Scorecard
Accountability is really important to us here at Balanced. So important, in fact, that we made it one of our core values. We value...

Audrey Sanchez
4 min read


An Interview with Heart Doctor, Dr. Andrew Freeman
We were fortunate enough to learn of Dr. Freeman's work after reading an article he wrote about heart attacks during the holiday season....

Audrey Sanchez
4 min read


The Food Industry Wants Us Fighting (Each Other)
Over the last 18 months I’ve come to realize a fundamental truth holding us back from making greater progress toward a healthy food...

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
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