Weight gain and the direct aliments attributed from it is the very least of the many predicaments associated with consumption of these unpalatable Artificial Sweeteners, especially Aspartame (E951) (also known as Nutrasweet or Equal), or should I call it "Rumsfeld Disease" from a form of "sweet" biochemical warfare.
I promptly stopped consuming Robinson's Fruit Squash and all fizzy drinks (except the occasional San Pellegrino) approximately 5 years ago and permanently substituted them for water and pure fruit juices after rather hastily learning the elaborately suppressed and forbidden medical malfeasances interconnected with it since the early 1970's; along with the FDA and the company who discovered Aspartame itself known as GD Searle, a former "life sciences" company which was acquisitioned by Monsanto with the negotiations of Donald Rumsfeld (former secretary of the US Department of Defense and who I suspect as an Iraq war criminal) shortly after it's concocted and politicized approval, which today now acts as a subsidiary trademark of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer (Monsanto Agri-Biotech Sciences produced this sweetener for 15 years prior to selling off to Ajinomoto in 2000, along with merging with Pharmacia and Upjohn, renaming itself "Pharmacia" while simultaneously retaining it's "Searle" pharmaceutical manufacturing division until it was finally acquisitioned by Pfizer in 2003 who subsequently retired the "Searle" name), only never to touch them again, the stuff is evil.
Very luckily I didn't endure any heath implications from the synthetic sweetener as it's utilized in much less quantified dosages in fruit squash than fizzy beverages, but my discernibly individualized perception of the world as I see it which would diversely range from nation governments; corporations (esp. the medical industrial complex), ideologies, religion and our modern societal paradigm as a whole has irreversibly never been the same again ever since abstaining from Aspartame.
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Diagnosed with "Classical" Asperger's syndrome in 1998 (Clinical psychologist).
RAADS-R: 237/240
Aspie score: 199 out of 200
Neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 1 out of 200
Alexithymia Questionnaire: 166/185 AQ: 49/50 EQ: 9/80