Top 10 of 2024

Update: 2024-12-25

Description

It’s time to hear which episodes made the Top 10 of 2024! Are you ready to catch a glimpse of the health, nutrition, and lifestyle tips that could transform your 2025? Let this be your curated playlist for your listening time this holiday season.

Welcome to Salad with a Side of Fries, the podcast where balance meets results and wellness seamlessly fits into real life. In this final full episode of 2024, host Jenn Trepeck reflects on an incredible year, celebrating the show’s recognition as Earworthy’s Best Health and Wellness Independent Podcast of 2024. Jenn and one lucky listener share their top 10 episodes of the year, diving into powerful conversations about health, nutrition, and lifestyle, featuring expert guests and transformative insights, including the podcast’s very first live show. Plus, don’t miss the exciting lead-up to this Friday’s final Nutrition Nugget of the year, “Daily,” where Jenn explores how small, consistent actions can create the 2025 of your dreams. Tune in for a recap of the year’s highlights and a glimpse of what’s to come!

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 THIS EPISODE:

[4:01 ] Salad With A Side of Fries honored with the best Health and Wellness Independent Podcast of 2024 by Earworthy
[8:03 ] Ep. 235 Top Three Reasons And Remedies For Weight Loss Resistance (feat. Becky Bell) - aired January 31st
[11:29 ] Ep. 247 Coin and Cuisine - Commonalities Between Money and Food
[13:57 ] Ep. 243 Unsubscribe, Food Tracking Apps and Diet Culture (feat. Nicole Hagen) - aired March 27th
[19:08 ] Ep. 252 Take Your Foot Off the Gas (Reverse Dieting) - aired May 29th
[22:06 ] Ep. 275 - Fitness Fact or Fiction (feat. Sarah Thomas) - aired November 6th
[28:27 ] Ep. 242 - The Ultimate Biohack - aired March 20th
[34:57 ] Ep. 269 - Caveman Biology in a Very Modern World (feat. Dr. Kathy Campbell) - aired September 25th
[40:30 ] Ep. 277 - 8 Domains of Health - aired November 20th
[43:00 ] Ep. 249 - Memory: How We Lose It and How to Keep It - aired May 8th
[46:50 ] #10 Ep 264 - Live from New York...It's Salad with a Side of Fries! - aired August 21st
[51:07 Bonus Picks: IBS is a BS Diagnosis (feat. Hannah Aylward), Nutrition Nugget: Enough (aired 5/31/24), Nutrition Nugget: Your Acceptance Speech (aired 2/9/24)

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

The Top Three Reasons and Remedies for Weight Loss Resistance focused on the fact that stress plays a major, often overlooked role in weight loss resistance, alongside inflammation and insulin resistance. Addressing stress management, sleep quality, and resilience can sometimes be more effective than focusing solely on diet or exercise.
Fitness Fact or Fiction offered an antidote to fitness advice that can feel overwhelming and contradictory. This episode makes it approachable by focusing on actionable steps for long-term wellness. It emphasizes the importance of balance, debunks common myths, and discusses the critical role of muscle mass in metabolism as we age. A standout quote, "You can't outrun your fork," reminds listeners that fitness and nutrition must work together, and no amount of exercise can replace proper eating habits.
The focus of The Ultimate Biohack was that sleep is the cornerstone of health and wellness; none of the trendy "biohacks" can compare to its impact. Jenn debunks the glamorization of sacrificing sleep for productivity, highlighting its role in cognitive function, recovery, and brain detoxification through the glymphatic system. Without consistent, quality sleep (7-8+ hours), fitness, nutrition, and supplementation efforts are significantly undermined.
The focus of Live from New York…It’s Salad with a Side of Fries, 5th Anniversary of the show, was a live recorded Q&A episode that captured the essence of the podcast’s mission and philosophy, showcasing the vibrant community around it. The dynamic energy of the event highlighted the importance of fostering real connections while experimenting with unique formats, such as live shows, to engage listeners freshly and authentically.

QUOTES:

[14:47 ] “I think this story is all too common, where doctors want to tell us just from looking at us what's happening, or they make judgments based on our weight, and as we say over and over, health is not a size, weight does not determine health in any capacity.” Jenn Trepeck

[21:04 ] “We expect so much of ourselves. I think another piece is the role of consistency and balance. Frankly, if we could live 100 percent of the time in consistency and balance, we'd see the “results” that everybody's looking for.” Jenn Trepeck

[29:20 ] “We're deteriorating our health more by not sleeping than we could get from any biohack.” Jenn Trepeck

[31:02 ] “One of my biggest pet peeves with the personal development gurus is that they're all saying, sleep when you die, find more time in the day, wake up two hours earlier….” Jenn Trepeck

[38:06 ] “We are eating food that is devoid of nutrition. We're eating food-like substances that give our bodies more chemicals or “modified foods.” We're eating these things, and they taste good, they seem like food, but they're not providing the body with the nutrients it seeks and that it needs to do all its functions.” Jenn Trepeck

[44:39 ] “Alzheimer's is referred to as diabetes type three. So, we see this connection between our metabolic health and brain health, how our brains function. The good news is that we have a lot of control. We're not doomed to an aging memory.” Jenn Trepeck

[46:02 ] “I no longer use a to-do list. Everything ends up on the calendar at a time slot with an allocated time to do the thing. For what it's worth, that has been life-changing.” Jenn Trepeck

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Ep. 235 - Top 3 Reasons & Remedies for Weight Loss Resistance (feat. Becky Bell)

Ep. 247 - Coin and Cuisine - Commonalities Between Money and Food

Ep. 274 - 8 Chemicals that Drive Overeating & Undereating (feat. Dr. Laurel Mellin)

Ep. 243 - Unsubscribe: Food Tracking Apps & Diet Culture (feat. Nicole Hagen)

Ep. 252 - Take Your Foot Off the Gas (Reverse Dieting)

Ep. 275 - Fitness Fact or Fiction (feat. Sarah Thomas)

Ep. 242 - The Ultimate Biohack

Ep. 269 - Caveman Biology in a Very Modern World (feat. Dr. Kathy Campbell)

Ep. 277 - 8 Domains of Health