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 ...

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

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

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

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

Pop quiz: what food product that can’t be labeled nutritious, healthy, relatively low calorie, relatively low fat, or a rich source of pr...

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

How far would you go to prevent your child from dying 14 years prematurely? Would you jump in front of a bullet? Lift a car? What about s...

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, a...