Posted on 12/13/2007 3:13:39 PM PST by blam
Because most households have salt. Most don't have kelp capsules. You're talking about introducing iodine into an existing distribution chain rather than introducing a new product and creating a new distribution chain.
Most of the countries they are targeting are very poor. Subsistence farming for the most part with maybe a small cash crop. Salt, cooking oil, sugar and maybe tea are about the only foods they would buy.
And they really don't need to worry about salt overload. They tend to use it sparingly because of the cost and they tend to sweat a lot because they tend to do a great deal of hard manual labor which uses up your bodies salt reserves.
My husband gets kosher salt, too. We rarely use Morton’s Iodized.
Maybe the Edisons and Einsteins had some other source of iodine. Fresh vegetables, perhaps. I haven’t looked into all the sources, because kelp capsules don’t cost very much.
It makes sense, if they’re already using processed salt regularly.
Americans get more sodium than they need -- and the vast majority American infants probably get as much iodine as they need. Trace elements in the body aren't good in any amount or bad in any amount; it's a question of balance. Too much water can kill, as can too little.
I’m sorry, I should have written “pepples”, which is “peoples” as pronounced by Kofi Annan.
They started putting iodine in salt to prevent goiters.
I know, because my liberal mother decided to go “natural”
by using iodine free salt. You guessed it. I got a goiter.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/goiter/DS00217
This is a worthwhile program. On the other hand, I wonder how many people are administering the program and the amount of their yearly salaries. About one administrators wages could supply nearly the whole world.
Thanks, that’s very informative. I’d forgotten the history.
Whew! for a minute there I thought my Iodine was wearing off. Glad you strsightened that out.
Mrs. Edison and Mrs Einstein lived in first-world countries where they could provide their children with balanced diets. I could flip the question around 180° -- how many more Edisons and Einsteins might we have had we known more about nutrition?
Had better nutrition and sanitation been more widespread? How many potential Edisons and Einsteins died in childhood of nutritional deficiencies, cholera or typhoid?
Also, If you’re a woman and you take thyroid meds for hypothyroid, i.e. levothyroxine.....you should also be taking tri-odide....says my doc.
On the other hand, LOL . . . my mother insisted on iodized salt to prevent goiters and I got one any way! Had my thyroid radiated to death.
Everybody should be expert on something, but iodized salt?
Hi Donna...
That’s just plain wrong and I’m sorry to hear
that you went through that. My goiter went
away when Mom went back to iodized salt.
However having a goiter in Jr. High School...
I’m still not over it. LOL!
Iodized salt is why goiters have become rare.
Oh, I’m glad for you. They don’t know why I got it - it was Graves disease like the elder President and Mrs. Bush got when they were in the White House.
Now I have an underactive thyroid and must take medication. At least I didn’t get those buggy eyes that some people get.
Maternity care providers who monitor research don’t.
One of those history-class facts I’d forgotten.
I wasn’t thinking about commercial salt’s being so widely distributed. That being the case, it does make sense to add the nutrient to the salt, rather than considering other sources.
That's what I call discerning taste buds.
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