Madeline BennettFeb 13 minA Response to The Atlantic’s Bad Nutrition TakeIf there’s one thing I can count on, it’s that popular media will continue to circulate feel-good distortions of the nutrition science...
Audrey SanchezMay 29, 20193 minWe'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 JacobsonMay 13, 20194 minBig 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.
Audrey SanchezMar 29, 20195 minI 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 SanchezMar 27, 20193 minI 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 BennettFeb 1, 20194 minHow 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 BennettJan 18, 20194 minThree Ways to Put the EAT-Lancet Report into ActionThis week, the EAT-Lancet Commission released its first report outlining a set of universal, evidence-based benchmarks for the global...
Madeline BennettJan 16, 20195 minThe 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 BennettJan 7, 20195 minIt's 2019, Eggs Still Aren't HealthyIn December of 2018, TIME magazine published an article titled "Are Eggs Healthy? Here's What the Experts Say." Unfortunately, what the...
Sarah LandmanDec 17, 20183 min3 Things I’ve Learned After a Year of Advocacy Work at BalancedWorking 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...
Audrey SanchezDec 7, 20183 minHot Take: the USDA doesn't care about childrenWith the announcement that loosened school nutrition standards are going to allow for increased servings of refined grains,...
Audrey SanchezNov 5, 20183 minReading List Suggestions for Understanding the Food SystemInstead 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 SanchezSep 19, 20184 minBalanced Menu ScorecardAccountability is really important to us here at Balanced. So important, in fact, that we made it one of our core values. We value...
Audrey SanchezAug 28, 20183 minSometimes Progress Requires DiscomfortRecently, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with the food service directors — and often their contracted food service company — of...
Audrey SanchezMay 8, 20184 minAn Interview with Heart Doctor, Dr. Andrew FreemanWe were fortunate enough to learn of Dr. Freeman's work after reading an article he wrote about heart attacks during the holiday season....
Audrey SanchezApr 18, 20183 minThe 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...