Complex Picky Eating: What Parents Are Missing with Shandy Watters

About this episode

This episode explores the complexities of picky eating in children and offers insights from expert Shandy Watters.

Send us Fan Mail If you have ever wondered why your child is obsessed with crackers, bread, pasta, and that one specific brand of chicken nugget and absolutely nothing else, this episode is going to change how you see that. I sat down with Shandy Watters, an integrative speech language pathologist, functional nutrition therapy practitioner, and founder of Speaking of Health and Wellness. Shandy works with parents of children with complex picky eating, including kids with autism, ADHD, sensory...

People in this episode

Host: Lena Livinsky

Guest: Shandy Watters

Topics covered

• picky eating
• parenting
• nutrition
• children's health
• autism
• ADHD

Keywords

• picky eating
• children
• nutrition
• autism
• ADHD
• parenting
• health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Speaking of Health and Wellness

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