The Starkel Nutrition Blog
The latest from the expert team of nutritionists at Starkel Nutrition to help you live healthier, vibrant, and fuller lives.
Covid19 A December Follow Up to our March 2020 Blog
In March, we posted a blog titled: Coronavirus: What You Need to Know & Do: Plus Our New Immunity Supporting Kits to Keep You Healthy. We wanted to follow up on that article and hone our recommendations based on new data. First, the coronavirus now is referred to...
Taking the Power Out of Halloween Candy For You and Your Child
In this age of scary messages about candy, chilling thoughts about sugar, and terrifying “facts” about childhood obesity, parents are more and more concerned about Halloween candy. Parents have employed tactics like allowing kids to participate in trick or treating...
Recover Your Immune System with Turmeric
Turmeric is a potent anti-inflammatory food, spice and herb that has been traditionally used for centuries in cooking and in Ayurvedic remedies (one of the oldest modalities of medicine). Current research shows it to be as effective as Ibuprofen for pain relief when...
Riding the Wave: Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to Help Cope with Urges
Changing a habit is hard. Maybe you’re working on a food-related habit with your nutritionist. Or maybe it’s a more relational habit, like advice giving. It makes sense that habits are hard to break. They get hard wired into our brain and the momentum pulls us to...
Is Tiger Nut A Nut?
In my work with clients, one of the external tools we often use is an elimination diet. For clients with a diagnosis of an autoimmune disease we may experiment with following the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) for a period of time to reduce inflammation. While the AIP is...
Breathe Better With Ravintsara An essential oil ally
Ravintsara, or Cinnamomum camphora (in the Laurel family) is also referred to as “Madagascar camphor”, or simply the Camphor tree. It is found in Madagascar and has been used medicinally for millennia. The essential oil is non-skin irritating and non-sensitizing,...
Plant-Based Eating
Do you keep hearing that eating a plant-based diet is healthy for you? Do you like the idea of eating more plants, but don't want to give up meat? Are you ready to give more plants a try, but aren't sure how? Well, you're in luck, because eating more plants is a...
Wearing Clothes That Fit
Do you own a pair of skinny jeans that haven’t fit well in over two years? Are you holding on to them in desperate hope that you will one day rock them comfortably and look so hot all of your problems will melt away? Or maybe you continue to wear a much-too-large...
Tips For Supporting Yourself In Cancer Treatment
In the best of times, taking care of yourself in treatment can be challenging. Depending on your diagnosis and treatment, side effects can limit how and what you eat, taste of food, exercise, sleep patterns and energy to do daily tasks. In uncertain times, these...
4 Tips for Exercising at Home While being kind to yourself
One of the most common client questions I'm getting right now is how to change their exercise routine so they can successfully work out at home. All our normal schedules have been shifted, broken and scattered, and we are scrambling to pick up the pieces. We all know...
4 Common Myths about HAES (Health At Every Size)
While health can be shaped by genetics and lifestyle factors, it is also influenced by access to food, housing and health care as well as gender, race, working conditions, employment status, income level and more. Although many of these social determinants of health...
6 Reminders for Eating During Quarantine
Being in quarantine is hard. We are bombarded daily with messages about what to do, how to thrive, what to feel and what to eat. With stress abound, eating habits that you have been cultivating may change. That is okay. And even though we are all isolated, getting...
6 Tips to Help Your Kids Make New Food Routines During Quarantine A Parent to Parent Approach
Like many of you out there, I’m now working from home and sharing the new adventures of doing this with my kids. I’m not sure what my initial thoughts were when this reality hit me, but any grandeur I once had about everything I could get done came crashing down week...
How to Support Yourself During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Someone once told me that the Chinese character for “crisis” is actually composed of two characters: the first one signifying “danger” and the other meaning “opportunity.” The way I feel about the current state of things actually goes back and forth, between “danger”...
CLINIC UPDATE: All Appointments Moving Online to TELEHEALTH Starting on March 16, 2020
As a clinic we have been diligently tracking all the news and updates regarding COVID-19. At this time, taking into consideration the recommendations of epidemiologists, health experts as well as government officials, to ensure the utmost safety of our clients,...
COVID-19: What We Are Doing | Telehealth Options | Advisory to Clients
In this time of commonly experienced uncertainty over what the next days and weeks are going to look like in Seattle, as one of the epicenters of the COVID-19, our clinic would like to extend our support, knowledge and resources to our clients and readers. Your...
Coronavirus: What You Need to Know & Do Plus Our New Immunity Supporting Kits to Keep You Healthy
The nutritionists at Starkel Nutrition put our heads together to offer our thoughts on the coronavirus. We would like to offer our recommendations regarding the current outbreak amidst the abundance of information already available, as we know we take a different approach to health in general.
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Next week (Feb 24-Mar 1) is National Eating Disorders Awareness (#NEDAwareness) Week. NEDA week is a movement to raise awareness and support for those affected by eating disorders. Eating disorders are a serious but treatable mental illness that can affect people of...
Getting to the Core of the Apple
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." So the old saying goes and it might possibly be true. However, what kind of apples are you eating? How are you eating them? How are you storing them? It all matters. Modern apples were first domesticated 3000 years ago from the...
Nutritionist, Naturopath or Health Coach? The what, who and why of each specialty
Whether it is to continue leading a healthy lifestyle, manage recurring symptoms or aid in the treatment of chronic illnesses, you have decided to seek out a professional to help you achieve your goals. But should it be a certified nutritionist, a registered...
Collagen vs. Gelatin – What is the Difference? Plus a fun recipe to try at home
What is the difference between collagen and gelatin and how are they used in cooking? Collagen protein powder has become very popular in the past few years as a protein source. Gelatin has also been making an appearance in both recipes and on store shelves. While...