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" Dawn Harris Sherling: Eat Everything How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food 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" CDC: All about your A1C "A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World" CDC: Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Associated with Procedures Performed under Epidural Anesthesia in Matamoros, Mexico "Joan Rivers Died From Complication in Treatment, Officials Say" Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.