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 national nutrition aw...

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

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 than trying to educate ...

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 crisis. In Part One I...

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

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

The hardest job of a nutrition advocate is getting people to appreciate the full gravity of our nation’s truly grim health crises. Not surprisingly, I’ve fou...

In December of 2018, TIME magazine published an article titled "Are Eggs Healthy? Here's What the Experts Say." Unfortunately, what the article failed to do w...

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 any kind of advocac...

With the announcement that loosened school nutrition standards are going to allow for increased servings of refined grains, flavored-milk, and higher sodium ...

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 point. To that end, I’v...

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

Recently, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with the food service directors — and often their contracted food service company — of numerous major school dist...

We were fortunate enough to learn of Dr. Freeman's work after reading an article he wrote about heart attacks during the holiday season. We were immediately ...

Over the last 18 months I’ve come to realize a fundamental truth holding us back from making greater progress toward a healthy food system: we’re fighting ea...