Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about GMOs and BEs. GMO’s are plants, animals, microorganisms, or other organisms whose genetic makeup has been modified in a laboratory using genetic engineering or transgenic technology. GMO’s are growing more and more common, and the governing bodies now added a “new” name for t...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. Today we are discussing breakfast. Is...

Extra! Extra! Salad with a Side of Fries listener, Dawn, created the Naturally Healthy Women Summit to support women in their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health! Featuring 19 speakers over 5 days plus interactive games and Q&A sessions in the corresponding Facebook Group, this online summit offers a tremendous learning experience. It's TOTALLY FREE to participate and for just $67 you...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about the One Bar, from Fiber One. Jenn recently inspected the One Bar labels and was surprised with what she discovered. Is the One Bar really the best high-protein bar on the market? Tune in to learn more about the nutrition in the One Bar. Like what you're hearing? Be sure to ch...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. Today we’re discussing gut health and...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about coconut water. Coconut water has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. Today, Jenn is answering some common questions about coconut water. Tune in to learn what coconut water actually is, if coconut water is healthful, and how to choose coconut water that’s best f...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. Today we're discussing the environmen...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks, and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about Hibiscus. Hibiscus has some powerful ingredients for gut and skin health. It is most often used in herbal teas and as an extract, and every part of the flower is used. With the small amount of research done via test tubes and rats, (dating back to the 1700s) it has been show...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. We dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.  In today’s episode, Desiree Lotz j...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about chewing gum. Some people will say gum helps curb cravings or they eat less when they chew gum. While others say it can cause stomach upset. Which is true given the research? And do the ingredients matter if we’re not swallowing it? In just a few minutes Jenn answers all these...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. On today’s episode, Alexandra Carter...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. Ever feel like you don’t have time to work out? This week, Jenn's talking about the Tabata workout, a 4 minute intense workout that can improve athletic performance, glucose metabolism, and fat burning. Tune in to learn how Tabata is proven to be more effective than moderate intensity training even for long...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.  In honor of mental health actio...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about “working the globe”. What does this mean and how can it help cure food boredom? Just because you buy the same foods at the grocery store, doesn’t mean you have to cook it the same way for every meal.  Tune in to hear real life examples of “working the globe”. Like what you're...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. In the age of social media influencers and internet gurus, it can be hard to distinguish between fact and fiction – especially when it comes to diet and nutr...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about quercetin. What is quercetin and what does it do? Why was it the most googled nutrient in 2021? How do we get it? Tune in to learn about this unique antioxidant and its health benefits. Like what you're hearing? Be sure to check out the full length episodes; new releases ever...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Today’s guest is Tina McDermott. Tina has been working in the health and wellness industry for almost 20 years. She feels she was born to help people improve...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks, and approachable science. This week, we're talking about smoothies. Fundamentally smoothies can be great. They can help us get a lot of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Smoothies can act as a compliment to the rest of our food choices and add variety to our diet. But smoothies can also be a giant trap! Smoothies aren’t inherently...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. We dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. Do you feel like sometimes you try to do...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks, and approachable science. This week Jenn is talking about Green Coffee, an ingredient often confused with coffee or green tea, but they are not the same. Fundamentally green coffee and coffee both originate from the coffee fruit, but their chemical profiles are different. The biggest difference being the amount of chlorogenic acids...

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. We dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.  Today’s featured expert on Salad W...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks, and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about Olive Oil. Olive Oil is one of the ‘healthy fats’, but what does it actually give us? Olive Oil has many antioxidant properties but not all olive oils are the same! Avoid the light, extra light, mixed, pure, and more; read the ingredients to make sure you’re getting the good...

The Salad With A Side Of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. There are many ways to improve our wellness from your nutrition intake and activity to kindness, workout buddies and long hikes. Today’s episode of Salad Wit...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-size, bonus episodes offering tips, tricks, and approachable science. This week, Jenn's talking about integrity. What does that have to do with our food? Belief in ourselves is a function of integrity. Integrity is about being a person of our word, a person who keeps their commitments with others and upholding our integrity with the things that we want to do for ourselves. L...

The Salad With A Side Of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. We've all heard that essential fats are important for our nutrition, but what does everybody really need to understand about oils and processing of oil? Toda...