Madeline Bennett
When 2 crises collide: coronavirus and diet-related disease
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
top of page
NEWS & BLOG
Search
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
Mitigating the Impact of Digital Marketing for Unhealthy Food
This week on the Balanced Blog, guest contributor Jendi Brooks, takes a look at the connection between digital marketing, unhealthy food,...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
Different year, same attack on children's health
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), led by Sonny Perdue, released a proposal for changes to the Federal Nutrition...
Madeline Bennett
4 min read
If your goals in the New Year include a more balanced diet, read this first.
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...
Audrey Sanchez
5 min read
2020: The Future is Now
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...
Madeline Bennett
6 min read
Heritage and Health: My Family's Rediscovered Connection to Food
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...
Madeline Bennett
3 min read
I went to a school nutrition conference, and here's what I saw...
Last week, I spent two days at the School Nutrition Association (SNA) Annual National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. For our readers...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
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...
Andrea Jacobson
4 min read
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.
Sarah Landman
6 min read
From High Cholesterol to Healthy Lifestyle Advocate: A Provider's Perspective
We recently had the opportunity to interview Kansas City's only Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, Trey Bennett, to learn...
Audrey Sanchez
5 min read
I no longer believe education is the best solution...(part 2)
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...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
I no longer believe education is the best solution. (Part 1)
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...
bottom of page