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.

We recently had the opportunity to interview Kansas City's only Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, Trey Bennett, to learn more about his health...

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...

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

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

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 sell Charlie first....

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...

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...

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 just today, Vox publi...

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 sign a petition or se...

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, and care for our chil...