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Dr. Dawn Harris Sherling Is Helping Change Our World (Authority)

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Social Impact Authors: How & Why Dr. Dawn Harris Sherling Is Helping To Change Our World

From Authority Magazine

 I don’t want to only highlight the problem and give people something else to worry about, but help people come up with solutions that work for their lives and hopefully find joy in eating again.

Thank you to Authority magazine for this Social Impact Authors feature!

Excerpt:

As part of my series about “authors who are making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dawn Harris Sherling.

Dawn Harris Sherling M.D. is an internal medicine physician and author whose work calls out the rampant diet-related misinformation out there and simplifies the real science and latest medical advancements that can not only heal a host of digestive related illnesses, but also make eating easier and more joyful again. A graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine, she is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and a former Instructor in Medicine at Harvard University. After struggling with IBS herself, Dr. Dawn Harris Sherling’s symptoms seemingly disappeared while in Italy. In an effort to help her patients and herself, Dr. Sherling began learning more about how food additives such as emulsifiers, thickeners, and stabilizers are wreaking havoc on our microbiomes and how eliminating them can reverse several diet-related diseases. Dr. Sherling currently sees patients at a clinic for the underserved in South Florida and teaches at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University where she serves as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Her latest book, “Eat Everything: How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food” is available for purchase now HERE via BenBella Books and Penguin Random House Distribution.

 

Read the full interview here!

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How to Spot Additives in Foods (WKRN-TV)

Dr. Dawn on TV, featured on ABC Local on 2

Dr. Dawn and her new book Eat Everything is featured on Local on 2 TV! She shares a little bit of her own personal story that led her to write the book, plus she explains easy substitutes for ultra-processed food. Watch the full segment below or here.

Check out these photos from the segment:

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“a thoughtful, explanatory book that is useful to almost anyone.” (The Linden Review)

The Linden Review

Eat Everything was reviewed by Laura Johnson Dahlke in The Linden Review.

Here’s a snippet:

“Eat Everything: How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food by Dawn Harris Sherling, is a thoughtful, explanatory book that is useful to almost anyone. The writer offers clear and valuable information about how she believes additives and emulsifiers in ultra-processed foods are causing illness, especially intestinal upset and disease. In addition, the author streamlines her advice to consumers by encouraging them to eat any whole food, closest to its original form, without worrying too much about variety.”

Read the full review here.

 

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Nutritionists Weigh in on the FDA’s New Definition of “Healthy” (SPY)

Dr. Dawn Sherling was recnetly interviewed for an article at Spy.com about the FDA’s update to dietary guidelines.

From the original article on Spy.com:

On September 29th, 2022 the FDA proposed updating their definition of “healthy” food as part of their dietary guidelines, revising the criteria food manufacturers need to meet in order to legally label their food as “healthy” in the commercial setting.

The original guidelines for “healthy” food were created in 1994, and haven’t been updated since, and according to a few of the dieticians and nutritionists we spoke with, this move marks a notable attempt by the FDA to keep up with what nutritional science has known for a while.

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“A person can think they are making healthy choices and can be trying really hard to do the right thing, but they are being undermined by marketing. I’m hopeful that the new FDA rules might help us to course correct a bit,” said Dr. Sherling.

Read the full article here.

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Food Additives and Your Microbiome
(Eat Burn Sleep podcast)

Dr. Dawn Sherling on Eat Burn Sleep podcast with Yalda Alaoui

Dr. Dawn talked about gut health and the shocking effect ultra-processed food has on our health on the Eat Burn Sleep podcast with Yalda Alaoui.

From the show notes on Eatburnsleep.com:

Eat Burn Sleep video interview

Watch the inteview on EatBurnSleep.com

Food Additives and your Microbiome

Have you ever wondered why you don’t have IBS symptoms when you are traveling in Europe, but it returns when you get back to the US?

What food additives should you avoid for Gut Health Issues?

Dr. Dawn Harris Sherling, MD, FACP, is an internal medicine physician and writer based in Florida. She is completing her book on common dietary misconceptions in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). She joined me for a live on Instagram to discuss the impact of food additives on gut health and raise awareness about the quality of food we eat are eating.

In this episode:

  • What is the most significant difference between the European and American diets?
  • How ultra-processed foods change the microbiome.
  • Why do you still gain weight no matter how much you diet and exercise when ingesting additives?
  • What are the simple solutions to the complex problems we are facing today?
  • What food additives should you avoid and look out for on labels?
Listen (or watch) to the Episode Check out Dawn’s Book

 

You can also listen to this informative episode now on Apple podcasts or Spotify.

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Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Preventable Deaths (EatThis.com)

Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Premature, Preventable Deaths, New Study Finds

Dr. Dawn Sherling was recently featured in EatThis.com’s article:
Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Premature, Preventable Deaths, New Study Finds

“Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Premature, Preventable Deaths, New Study Finds”

From the original article on EatThis.com:

“The findings contribute to a mounting body of evidence that ultra-processed foods are contributing to disease and premature deaths in a very similar fashion to tobacco use,” Dawn Harris Sherling, MD, FACP, DABOM, Clinical Affiliate Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine, tells Eat This, Not That! “The scariest part of this study as an American, however, is that in this study done with Brazilian data, it is estimated that only about 20% of their diet was ultra-processed. In the US, studies estimate that nearly 60% of the average diet is ultra-processed. It’s not scientifically sound to just triple the estimate for the US population, but it does raise very scary implications for the health of the population here.”

Read the full article here.

 

 

Publishers Weekly, Review of “Not Quite Dead”

“Autumn Johnson, the heroine of Sherling’s impressive first novel, endures long hours in the ICU at Boston Memorial Hospital as a first-year intern. Her onerous duties leave her little time to spend with her new boyfriend, Jay Abrams, a medical student involved in diabetes research. The professional and personal intersect after a seriously ill patient with heart problems who’s brought into intensive care while Autumn is on duty proves to be Jay. Despite the heroic efforts of a senior resident, Jay, whose ailment is undiagnosed, remains near death. Autumn’s relationship with him leads the hospital to give her some time off, which she spends trying to track down what caused his condition.”

For full article click here.