“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...

With the announcement that loosened school nutrition standards are going to allow for increased servings of refined grains,...

Last night, thanks to the tireless efforts of a coalition of people and organizations including numerous Balanced parent advocates, the...

Pop quiz: what food product that can’t be labeled nutritious, healthy, relatively low calorie, relatively low fat, or a rich source of...

Forty-one years ago, a major broadcast marketing publication printed this: “If you’re selling, Charlie’s Mom is buying. But you’ve got to...

Instead of focusing exclusively on the state of our food system, I’ve been spending some time trying to figure out how we got to this...

Accountability is really important to us here at Balanced. So important, in fact, that we made it one of our core values. We value...

Recently, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with the food service directors — and often their contracted food service company — of...

Each time we ask for suggestions about ways we could improve our work, who we need to know, or where we need to go, our supporters step...

Here at Balanced we talk to a lot of doctors who are working to treat disease before major disaster strikes. This week, we have the...