Lieberman, Shari

PERSONAL:

Education: New York University, M.A.; Union Institute, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Carson City, NV.

CAREER:

Certified nutrition specialist. Clinical nutritionist in private practice in New York, NY. University of Bridgeport School of Human Nutrition, faculty member. Consultant.

MEMBER:

American College of Nutrition (fellow), American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, American Association for Health Freedom (president), New York Academy of Science.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Clinician of the Year award, National Nutritional Foods Association, 2003.

WRITINGS:

NONFICTION

(With Nancy Bruning) Design Your Own Vitamin and Mineral Program, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1987.

(With Nancy Bruning) The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book, Avery Publishing Group (Garden City Park, NY), 1990, 3rd edition published as The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book: A Definitive Guide to Designing Your Personal Supplement Program, 2003.

(With Ken Babal) Maitake, King of Mushrooms: The Amazing Broad-Range Healing Powers of an Ancient Food and Remedy, Keats (New Canaan, CT), 1997.

Get off the Menopause Roller Coaster: Natural Solutions for Mood Swings, Hot Flashes, Fatigue, Anxiety, Depression, and Other Symptoms, Penguin Putnam (New York, NY), 2000.

(With Nancy Bruning) Dare to Lose: Four Simple Steps to a Better Body, Avery Publishing Group (Garden City Park, NY), 2002.

(With James J. Gormley) Basic Health Publications User's Guide to Brain-Boosting Supplements: Learn about the Vitamins and Other Nutrients That Can Boost Your Memory and End Mental Fuzziness, Basic Health Publications (North Bergen, NJ), 2004.

(With James J. Gormley) Health Benefits of Phosphatidylserine (PS): Learn How Supplemental Phosphatidylserine (PS) Can Help Slow Down Brain Aging, Reduce the Risk of Demtia, Help Improve Brainpower, Fend Off Cognitive Decline, Help Treat Alzheimer's Disease, Basic Health Publications (North Bergen, NJ), 2005.

(With James J. Gormley) Basic Health Publication's User's Guide to Detoxification: Discover How Vitamins, Herbs, and Other Nutrients Help You Survive in a Toxic World, Basic Health Publications (Laguna Beach, CA), 2005.

(With Alan Xenakis) Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss and Inflammation Naturally, Square One (Garden City Park, NY), 2006.

(With Linda Segall) The Gluten Connection: How Gluten Sensitivity May Be Sabotaging Your Weight and Your Health—and What You Can Do to Take Control Now, Rodale (Emmanus, PA), 2007.

Contributing editor to American Medical Association's Drug Evaluations, 5th edition.

SIDELIGHTS:

Shari Lieberman is a clinical nutritionist who has been in private practice in New York City for some twenty years. She has written or collaborated on numerous books about nutrition and health. In Dare to Lose: Four Simple Steps to a Better Body, she and coauthor Nancy Bruning propose a four-part plan for losing weight sensibly. Their recommendations include sensible eating; modifications to lifestyle, including stress reduction; proper exercise; and essential nutritional supplements. They focus on the ways that too much stress can affect the metabolism and make it extremely difficult to lose weight. They explain how to detoxify the body so that it can function properly. All in all it is "a very rational and commonsense approach to weight loss," in the words of Alan L. Miller in the Alternative Medicine Review.

Leiberman worked with Alan Xenakis, founder of a nonprescription pharmaceutical-distributing company, to write the book Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss and Inflammation Naturally. Mineral Miracle focuses on an ancient practice of ingesting clay, which is thought by some to promote overall good health. Lieberman and Xenakis discuss a diet supplement called SierraSil, which contains silicates from clay found in the Sierra Nevada mountains. According to the authors, SierraSil can provide significant relief from inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis, and internal problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome. The authors explain the science behind the benefits of clay, and make suggestions for healthful diet and appropriate exercise. A reviewer for Publishers Weekly noted the "enthusiasm" the authors have for their subject, but added that perhaps because of that level of enthusiasm, the book bore some similarity to "a television infomercial."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Alternative Medicine Review, December, 2002, Alan L. Miller, review of Dare to Lose: Four Simple Steps to a Better Body, p. 530.

Health Products Business, June, 2001, review of Maitake, King of Mushrooms: The Amazing Broad-Range Healing Powers of an Ancient Food and Remedy, p. 58.

Library Journal, March 1, 2006, Andy Wickens, review of Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss and Inflammation Naturally, p. 110.

Natural Health, April, 2002, Francesca Forrest, review of Dare to Lose, p. 89.

Publishers Weekly, December 24, 2001, review of Dare to Lose, p. 60; February 13, 2006, review of Mineral Miracle, p. 83.*