Audrey Sanchez3 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 Jacobson4 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.
Madeline Bennett4 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 Bennett5 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...
Audrey Sanchez3 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 Sanchez2 minThe Egg Industry's New LowPop quiz: what food product that can’t be labeled nutritious, healthy, relatively low calorie, relatively low fat, or a rich source of...
Audrey Sanchez4 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 Sanchez4 minOur Children Will Die Younger Than Us — Unless We Take Action Now.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...
Audrey Sanchez3 minThe Business of School FoodI used to resent the tired trope of an informed or protective mother being called a mama-bear. For one, the desire to protect, nurture,...