{"id":2084,"date":"2011-06-11T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/formaldehyde-a-carcinogen-doesnt-that-make-diet-sodas-a-health-hazard.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:05:00","slug":"formaldehyde-a-carcinogen-doesnt-that-make-diet-sodas-a-health-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2084","title":{"rendered":"Formaldehyde? A carcinogen? Doesn’t that make Diet Sodas a health hazard?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who is surprised by this? No one, I’m sure, but they HAD to do the studies to show that nasty chemicals do nasty things to healthy bodies.  <\/span>

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The government on Friday added formaldehyde, a substance found in plastics and other commonly used products, to a list of known carcinogens ….<\/span><\/div>\n

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What does this have to do with Diet Sodas?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Nutrasweet is the pretty powder blue packet of synthetic sweetener called Aspartame. When this synthetic gets over 87 degrees F (you and I are 98.6 degrees F), it degrades to methanol, formic acid and … wait for it … formaldehyde<\/i>. <\/span><\/div>\n
Remember that smell from your high school BIO 101 class? The embalming smell of formaldehyde and those slick grey frogs you had to mutilate to get a peak at their internal organs? Yep. That’s formaldehyde. <\/span><\/div>\n
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