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...
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Andrea Jacobson
4 min
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.
Madeline Bennett
4 min
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
5 min
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...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min
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
2 min
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
3 min
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
4 min
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
3 min
Sometimes Progress Requires Discomfort
Recently, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with the food service directors — and often their contracted food service company — of...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min
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
1 min
It's time...
Just in case anyone missed this news, 2 weeks ago, this report on childhood obesity came out. Spoiler alert: it's not looking good. And...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min
The Business of School Food
I used to resent the tired trope of an informed or protective mother being called a mama-bear. For one, the desire to protect, nurture,...
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