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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...
Audrey Sanchez
3 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.
Andrea Jacobson
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...
Madeline Bennett
4 min read
The Standard American Diet Will Kill Hundreds of Thousands in 2019. Does Anyone Care?
The hardest job of a nutrition advocate is getting people to appreciate the full gravity of our nation’s truly grim health crises. Not...
Madeline Bennett
5 min read


Hot Take: the USDA doesn't care about children
With the announcement that loosened school nutrition standards are going to allow for increased servings of refined grains,...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read

The Egg Industry's New Low
Pop quiz: what food product that can’t be labeled nutritious, healthy, relatively low calorie, relatively low fat, or a rich source of...
Audrey Sanchez
2 min read

Balanced Menu Scorecard
Accountability is really important to us here at Balanced. So important, in fact, that we made it one of our core values. We value...
Audrey Sanchez
4 min read
Our Children Will Die Younger Than Us — Unless We Take Action Now.
How far would you go to prevent your child from dying 14 years prematurely? Would you jump in front of a bullet? Lift a car? What about...
Audrey Sanchez
4 min read


The Business of School Food
I used to resent the tired trope of an informed or protective mother being called a mama-bear. For one, the desire to protect, nurture,...
Audrey Sanchez
3 min read
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