Health & Veritas Dawn Harris Sherling: What Food Additives Are Doing to Your Microbiome
Howie and Harlan are joined by Dawn Harris Sherling, an internist at Florida Atlantic University and the author of Eat Everything: How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food. Harlan provides an update on the dangers of the artificial sweetener aspartame; Howie reflects on the lessons from an outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a plastic surgery clinic in Mexico.
Links:
“The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer. Here’s why you should listen.”
“Donald Rumsfeld and the Strange History of Aspartame”
Harvard School of Public Health: The Microbiome
“5 Food Additives You Should Avoid”
“The UN Decade of Nutrition, the NOVA food classification and the trouble with ultra-processing”
“A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World”
“Joan Rivers Died From Complication in Treatment, Officials Say”
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