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...

Big Food is robbing our children of their future—our future—right in front of our eyes. And it must change now.

We recently had the opportunity to interview Kansas City's only Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, Trey Bennett, to learn...

In Part One of this series, I shared the top two reasons I’ve come to believe nutrition and public health advocacy are more effective...

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 food system, which it describes as urgently requiring a “radical transformation.” According to the report, an international effort to meet these targets is needed to effectively combat both crises of health and climate, which are intrinsically linked through food production and consumption. In fact, the report names food “the single strongest

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