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...
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...
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...
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 or COVID-19 The nutritionists at Starkel Nutrition put our heads together to offer our thoughts on the coronavirus. These are some of our recommendations regarding the current outbreak amidst the abundance of information already available, as we know we...
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...
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