Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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Just kicking down the cobblestones.

Looking for fun and feeling groovy.

Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.

This show is being brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.

As registered dieticians and licensed nutritionists at nutritional weight and wellness,

we work with a variety of different children every week and many of them need special diets.

We also work with children who have digestive and intestinal issues.

And of course, we have a lot of clients who are on the autism spectrum. And oftentimes they have really strong likes and dislikes

about food. There might be a food that they won't even go near because of the color or the texture.

And then there are some foods that they want to eat every day at every meal.

If you haven't recognized my voice yet, I'm Cassie Wienis.

I'm a registered and licensed dietitian.

And I personally have learned a lot about what it takes to shop and cook for kids who have,

I guess you could say, special diets, because as many of the

longtime listeners know, both of my kids have celiac disease and they also both have a dairy

sensitivity. And if you're not familiar with celiac disease, in short, that is a genetic autoimmune

condition where your body starts attacking itself if you get even just

a crumb of gluten. So we're really strict about keeping our bodies in our house 100% gluten-free.

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