It’s an understatement of enormous proportions to say the uncertainty we’re facing is unprecedented. You know it. I know it. We all know...

Thus, this is not just an issue of personal health, but also a matter of how policy shapes our food environments to either the benefit or de

This week on the Balanced Blog, guest contributor Jendi Brooks, takes a look at the connection between digital marketing, unhealthy food,...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), led by Sonny Perdue, released a proposal for changes to the Federal Nutrition...

Ask the typical American how to eat healthfully, and you’ll probably get a vague response like, “Oh, you know, it’s best to eat a...

When I was a child in the mid-1990s, I found a book in our makeshift home library about the future. Written sometime in the late ’70s or...

Here in the United States, what we think of as a “normal” diet really has no historical or cultural precedent. At no other point in human...

Last week, I spent two days at the School Nutrition Association (SNA) Annual National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. For our readers...

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.

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

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...