Round out the end of summer and head into fall with these seasonal and healthful fruits and vegetables! Below are several varieties to incor

This summer, Balanced welcomes its first intern Julia Ryan, an MS/MPH candidate from the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts...

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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...

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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 Services school meal guidelines. Guidelines that, at their best, promote healthy meal patterns for the 30 million children who depend on them each day. At their worst, however, those same guidelines limit the quality, healthfulness, and diversity of foods on school menus. We've all seen them at their worst. Cue all the beige: So on the surface, i

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...