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...

Great question. The answer is almost as intuitive as it sounds, honestly. Balanced menus are about making sure more of our meals are more...

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...

The Advocacy team at Balanced has had the privilege of being able to work with some incredible and dedicated parent advocates, and we...

At Balanced, our central ask of school districts is that they enrich their menus by adding nutrient-dense plant-based proteins and...

This week, the EAT-Lancet Commission released its first report outlining a set of universal, evidence-based benchmarks for the global...

The hardest job of a nutrition advocate is getting people to appreciate the full gravity of our nation’s truly grim health crises. Not...

In December of 2018, TIME magazine published an article titled "Are Eggs Healthy? Here's What the Experts Say." Unfortunately, what the...

For a long time, New Year’s Resolutions have been pitched as independent endeavors. They’re sold as this sort of...

“Maybe the way you’re going about this is wrong,” a colleague in a similar industry said to me after reviewing Balanced’s School...

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...

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...