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Trending: Gut Health. Timeless: Fiber.
If you're looking to nurture your gut microbiome and promote a thriving internal ecosystem, there's a simple strategy: focus on fiber

Audrey Sanchez
2 min read


Beyond the Basics: Unlocking the Power of Fiber-Rich Foods
Fiber-rich foods offer an array of essential nutrients that boost our overall health and well-being.

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read


Reflecting on Reducetarian
Hello! My name is Nancy Zhang, and I’m a senior in high school currently interning at Balanced. I’m passionate about nutrition and...

Nancy Zhang
3 min read


Getting Nutrition Science Right | How Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science (Part III)
This is the third and final installment in a series about how food industry meddling biases nutrition science research to its advantage...

Madeline Bennett
5 min read


Amplifiers of Bad Science | How Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science (Part II)
This is the second installment in a series about how food industry meddling biases nutrition science research to its advantage....

Madeline Bennett
7 min read


The Industry Playbook | How Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science (Part I)
This is the first installment in a series about how food industry meddling biases nutrition science research to its advantage and at the ex

Madeline Bennett
7 min read


The 2022 White House Conference on Nutrition | Our View
This year is a big one for nutrition advocacy in the United States. The Biden Administration has been steadily gearing up to convene a...

Madeline Bennett
6 min read


A Response to The Atlantic’s Bad Nutrition Take
If there’s one thing I can count on, it’s that popular media will continue to circulate feel-good distortions of the nutrition science...

Madeline Bennett
3 min read


School Food’s Privatization Problem
In an effort to curtail the pandemic-caused spike in child hunger and malnutrition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made school...

Madeline Bennett
3 min read


Pandemic Menus: are changes to school meals here to stay?
Back in 2019, Balanced conducted a simple analysis of 24 random lunch menus pulled from 15 of the largest school districts across...

Madeline Bennett
5 min read


The Diet-related Disease Epidemic | Nutrition Mythbusters
Balanced is excited to bring to you our Nutrition Mythbusters series in which we debunk eight major myths about the links between diet...

Audrey Sanchez
4 min read


What about "Carbs"? | Nutrition Mythbusters
Balanced is excited to bring to you our Nutrition Mythbusters series in which we debunk eight major myths about the links between diet...

Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
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