2005 July

If you read Wednesday’s e-Alert about aspartame (”16,000 Tons and What Do You Get?” 7/27/05; see below), and you want to find out more about this controversial artificial sweetener, a good place to start is in the HSI Healthier Talk community.

Those are known as floaters, and an HSI member named Hank has this question about them: “When will there be an e-Alert on Floaters in the eyes and what can be done to protect sight?”

In other words, people are consuming enormous quantities of this artificial sweetener, which is better known by its commercial names, such as NutraSweet and Equal.

In other words, people are consuming enormous quantities of this artificial sweetener, which is better known by its commercial names, such as NutraSweet and Equal.

But there’s another important component in pineapples called bromelain that provides several health benefits. New research from Australia reveals that bromelain may turn out to be much more significant than previously imagined.