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Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
Fiber Paradox: How Ultra-Processed Foods Impact Health and Nutrition
As consumption of ultra-processed foods rises, there's a concerning trend emerging – a decline in the intake of dietary fiber.
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Audrey Sanchez
2 min read
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
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Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
We're giving awards for what?!
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...
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Andrea Jacobson
4 min read
Big Food profits, children pay the price.
Big Food is robbing our children of their future—our future—right in front of our eyes. And it must change now.
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Sarah Landman
6 min read
From High Cholesterol to Healthy Lifestyle Advocate: A Provider's Perspective
We recently had the opportunity to interview Kansas City's only Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, Trey Bennett, to learn...
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Audrey Sanchez
5 min read
I no longer believe education is the best solution...(part 2)
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...
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Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
I no longer believe education is the best solution. (Part 1)
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...
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Madeline Bennett
4 min read
How One Simple Menu Swap Can Prevent Chronic Disease
At Balanced, our central ask of school districts is that they enrich their menus by adding nutrient-dense plant-based proteins and...
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Madeline Bennett
4 min read
Three Ways to Put the EAT-Lancet Report into Action
This week, the EAT-Lancet Commission released its first report outlining a set of universal, evidence-based benchmarks for the global...
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