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Nutrition tips that actually work. Real-life healthy eating, balanced diet tools, and weight loss tips you can use today with coach Jenn Trepeck.* If you have searched for nutrition tips, tried to keep a healthy lifestyle, or felt stuck following popular weight loss tips, this podcast is for you. Get straightforward wellness advice that works in real life, plus strategies for a balanced diet, sustainable healthy eating, and a smarter approach to fitness and nutrition. Is your diet making you hungrier, crankier, or less healthy? Tune in and find out.* Free gift: Schedule a 15-minute curiosity call with Jenn to...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A practical nutrition show that turns weight, food rules, and health headlines into more usable questions.
Salad With a Side of Fries is a practical Health & Fitness show about nutrition, wellness, and weight loss. It works through guided guest conversations rather than quick verdicts, which lets it move from dietary guidelines and GLP-1 questions to alcohol risk, libido, pelvic…
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A practical blood-sugar conversation about appetite, meal timing, and feeling more in control this time of year.
Jen Trebek shapes this mid-December episode into a clear wellness conversation about blood sugar, meal spacing, and feeling more satisfied between meals.
A plainspoken look at how stress and restriction can make food thoughts feel louder.
The episode treats food noise as more than a mental tug; it frames it as something rooted in the body as well. Jen Trebek and Donna tie the constant pull toward food to calorie restriction, hunger cues, cortisol, adrenal fatigue, ghrelin, and leptin, then keep returning to the…
A practical wellness conversation that keeps returning to real life.
Jen Trebek keeps wellness on a long horizon, linking what someone does today to where they may be 12 weeks from now and, more broadly, to long-term independence.
An annual picks entry that turns heart rate variability into a practical listen.
Salad With a Side of Fries keeps its annual tradition centered on 10 episodes from this calendar year, selected by personal judgment, and episode 288, Use Your Heart Rate Monitor to Improve Your Health with Torquil Farrow, earns its place by making heart rate variability feel…
A reflective episode about purpose, connection, and the routines that make healthy aging feel more concrete.
This conversation treats healthy aging as a question of purpose and connection, with retirement framed less as an ending than a change in where meaning comes from.
A calm reset for the messy middle of changing habits.
After the January resolution slump, the episode turns to the harder part of change: cravings, self-critique, and the gap between a polished plan and ordinary life.
A clear, policy-aware look at why alcohol keeps surfacing in cancer conversations.
Salad With a Side of Fries turns the alcohol-and-cancer conversation into a plain-spoken look at how alcohol is metabolized, what acetaldehyde does, and why public warnings have not kept pace with the risks being discussed.
Libido is treated as a health signal, not a punchline.
The episode treats libido as a health signal and links sexual health to bone health, brain health, cardiovascular health, pelvic floor function, connection, stress relief, and aging.
The body, read as a message.
Practical fitness advice with evidence and edge.
Food choices, traced back to their systems.
Practical wellness, slowed down and made usable.
Jen Trebek and Julie discuss the FDA's new food pyramid, with Jen noting it is "hot off the press" and Julie saying she works in community nutrition at a food bank.
Jen Trebek and Allison talk about why longevity is about more than exercise.
Jen Trebek opens by connecting wellness to a 12-week horizon and to a much older version of daily life.
Jen Trebek opens with the show’s familiar wellness-and-weight-loss welcome and a new-year reset.
Jen Trebek spends the episode unpacking the alcohol-cancer connection in clear, plain language.
Host Jen Trebek examines a Copenhagen study on zero-calorie drinks that showed diet soda drinkers gained weight despite zero calories, explaining the physiological mechanisms behind insulin response and sweet taste addiction while uncovering discrepancies in how the study is commonly cited.
Host Jen Trebek reviews Salad Power smoothies, analyzing their nutritional content, ingredients, and marketing claims.
Host Jenn Trepeck and guest Dawn analyze Perk Energy's Tan Mocha Latte, critiquing its confusing marketing, ingredient transparency, and nutritional value.
Host Jen Trebek investigates Javi Coffee products after a listener request, analyzing their marketing claims, nutritional labels, and ingredient lists.
Salad with a Side of Fries interviews Dr.
Salad with a Side of Fries host Jen Trepanier and guest Steph discuss a framework drawn from a business seminar: the three decisions that will determine the next decade of your life are who you spend your time with, what you spend your time learning, and what you spend your time building.
Jen Trebek and health coach Donna discuss food noise—persistent intrusive thoughts about food, eating, and guilt—defining it as a physiological issue rooted in hormone dysregulation rather than willpower failure.
Jen Trebek and Tara Schmidt use the end of 2025 and start of 2026 to question New Year’s resolutions, weight bias, and why “your weight is your gravitational pull and nothing else.” Tara, a registered dietitian and Mayo Clinic instructor, says the goal is not a goal weight but health actions, and she argues that “there are zero diseases that exist only in bigger bodies.” The conversation quickly turns into a rapid-fire review of 75 Hard, low carb, counting macros, body composition, GLP-1s, supplements, sleep, and strength training.
Jen Trebek and a guest named Jennifer answer Happy Healthy Hub questions about cholesterol, leaky gut, food noise, and stubborn weight gain on Salad With a Side of Fries.
Salad With a Side of Fries marks episode 288 as an annual Top 10 recap, with Jen Trebek and post-production team member Dawn each choosing five favorite episodes from 2025.
Host Jen Trepeck investigates Starbucks' new protein drinks, revealing that the protein powder is simple whey but requires ordering specific versions with 2% milk or sweet cream.
Host Jen Trebek discusses Neap Foods' protein gel, comparing it to runner's gels and highlighting its 20 grams of protein, low calories, and convenience.
Host Jen Trebek investigates mosh bars, a product promoted by the Kennedy family, by analyzing its ingredients like acetylcholine, lion's mane, and ashwagandha.
Jen Trebek speaks with returning guest Zora Benhamou about menopause as a global experience, not just a U.S.
Jen Trebek talks with Sarah Wragge, founder of SarahRaggy Wellness, about how Sarah moved from advertising and late-night dinners to a health-first business built around connection.
Jen Trebek and Dr.
Salad With a Side of Fries host Jen Trebek interviews Tara VanderDusen, a fifth-generation dairy farmer, environmental scientist, and co-host of the Discover Ag podcast and TV series, about the distinctions between big food, big agriculture, and local family farming.
Sophie Shepherd, a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, discusses mineral balancing for thyroid health, fatigue, and mysterious symptoms.
Host Jenn Trepeck debunks nutrition myths and reviews a protein bar called Formbar, analyzing its ingredients and marketing claims.
A health coach discusses how gut health and constipation can impact chronic diseases like Parkinson's, introducing a microbiome researcher.
Host Jenn Trepeck discusses the Jacob Bar protein bar, analyzing its claims and the founder's story about healing his asthma through diet.
Host Jenn Trepeck interviews a clinical hypnotherapist about using hypnosis and identity shifts to support weight loss and health goals.
Host Jenn Trepeck discusses reframing the word 'hard' as 'uncomfortable' to make lifestyle changes easier.
Host Jenn Trepeck discusses how to incorporate foods like granola into a healthy diet and debunks 'healthy' marketing myths with guest Natalie.
This episode discusses diabetes awareness, explaining insulin's role in blood sugar regulation and featuring an interview with a diabetes specialist.
Host Jenn Trepeck discusses the difference between rigid and flexible habits with a guest who helps women find the right way to live their lives.
Host Jenn Trepeck reviews Proto Whey Protein Powder, analyzing its claims and nutrition facts for listeners seeking weight loss and healthy eating advice.
Host Jenn Trepeck discusses how to maintain healthy habits while traveling, emphasizing adjusting expectations and identifying non-negotiables.