Audrey Sanchez
What are balanced menus anyway?
Great question. The answer is almost as intuitive as it sounds, honestly. Balanced menus are about making sure more of our meals are more...
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Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
The Power of Parents
At Balanced, we often say, “If it matters to the food industry [Big Food], it matters to us.” Why? Because our advocacy is only effective...
Sarah Landman
4 min read
Balanced Advocate Spotlight: Sean Lishansky, Fairfax County Public Schools
The Advocacy team at Balanced has had the privilege of being able to work with some incredible and dedicated parent advocates, and we...
Madeline Bennett
4 min read
How 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 Bennett
4 min read
Three Ways to Put the EAT-Lancet Report into Action
This week, the EAT-Lancet Commission released its first report outlining a set of universal, evidence-based benchmarks for the global...
Madeline Bennett
5 min read
The 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...
Madeline Bennett
5 min read
It's 2019, Eggs Still Aren't Healthy
In December of 2018, TIME magazine published an article titled "Are Eggs Healthy? Here's What the Experts Say." Unfortunately, what the...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
When it Comes to Resolutions, Forget Willpower
For a long time, New Year’s Resolutions have been pitched as independent endeavors. They’re sold as this sort of...
Audrey Sanchez
2 min read
Maybe Everything We're Doing is Wrong. Or Maybe Not.
“Maybe the way you’re going about this is wrong,” a colleague in a similar industry said to me after reviewing Balanced’s School...
Sarah Landman
3 min read
3 Things I’ve Learned After a Year of Advocacy Work at Balanced
Working in nutrition advocacy, it is often tempting to focus on all the problems with our food system that have yet to be solved. As with...
Madeline Bennett
4 min read
Balanced's Institutional Outreach Manager Answers the Question, "Why Nutrition Advocacy?"
When people ask me, “What made you want to work in nutrition advocacy?” I rarely have a satisfying answer to give them, partly because I...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
Hot Take: the USDA doesn't care about children
With the announcement that loosened school nutrition standards are going to allow for increased servings of refined grains,...
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