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The Industry Playbook | How Food Companies Distort Nutrition Science (Part I)
This is the first installment in a series about how food industry meddling biases nutrition science research to its advantage and at the ex

Madeline Bennett
7 min read


The 2022 White House Conference on Nutrition | Our View
This year is a big one for nutrition advocacy in the United States. The Biden Administration has been steadily gearing up to convene a...

Madeline Bennett
6 min read


A Response to The Atlantic’s Bad Nutrition Take
If there’s one thing I can count on, it’s that popular media will continue to circulate feel-good distortions of the nutrition science...

Madeline Bennett
3 min read


School Food’s Privatization Problem
In an effort to curtail the pandemic-caused spike in child hunger and malnutrition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made school...

Madeline Bennett
3 min read


Pandemic Menus: are changes to school meals here to stay?
Back in 2019, Balanced conducted a simple analysis of 24 random lunch menus pulled from 15 of the largest school districts across...

Madeline Bennett
5 min read


The Diet-related Disease Epidemic | Nutrition Mythbusters
Balanced is excited to bring to you our Nutrition Mythbusters series in which we debunk eight major myths about the links between diet...

Julia Ryan
4 min read


What about "Carbs"? | Nutrition Mythbusters
Balanced is excited to bring to you our Nutrition Mythbusters series in which we debunk eight major myths about the links between diet...

Julia Ryan
3 min read


Keto and Paleo: Fad Diets or Healthy? | Nutrition Mythbusters
Balanced is excited to bring to you our Nutrition Mythbusters series in which we debunk eight major myths about the links between diet...

Julia Ryan
3 min read


Guest Post by Rosetta Juliet
5 Rules for Effective Meal Prepping by Rosetta Juliet Are you meal prepping yet? Good for you if yes. If not, you might want to start...
Rosetta Juliet
3 min read


The Added Benefit of Your Favorite Summer and Fall Produce
Round out the end of summer and head into fall with these seasonal and healthful fruits and vegetables! Below are several varieties to incor

Julia Ryan
4 min read


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

Audrey Sanchez
4 min read


The Opportunity in the Crisis
Nowhere in the United States has the coronavirus epidemic been so devastating as in the New York City metropolitan area. As of late...

Madeline Bennett
4 min read
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