Experts Urge Complete Global Access To Iodized Salt; Prevents IQ Loss And Brain Damage In Babies

Science Daily ^ | 12-13-2007 | Micronutrient Initiative.

[HighWheeler]

After all those potato chips for 60 years, it never worked on AlGore.

[edcoil]

Cows are so smart due to the salt licks.

[billorites]

"Prevents IQ Loss And Brain Damage"

and it keeps lead in you pencil.

[Tax-chick]

Why iodized salt, rather than other sources of iodine, such as kelp capsules?

[Paleo Conservative]

Ping!

[B4Ranch]

Salt licks are not iodized.

[Lil'freeper]

I suspect because it’s so “cheap”. I find it interesting that American doctors counsel pregnant women to limit salt intake.

[Leo Carpathian]

Put a salt shaker on every liberal dimwit’s table.

[Tax-chick]

Yes, that is a bit odd. They’re overgeneralizing from the association of sodium intake with high blood pressure, which can be a problem in pregnancy.

I usually don’t add salt to food, either when cooking or eating, so I take kelp for iodine.

[Jeff Chandler]

If they really want third world pepples to get their iodine, they should put it in booze.

[Paleo Conservative]

I suspect because it’s so “cheap”. I find it interesting that American doctors counsel pregnant women to limit salt intake.

Sea food is loaded with iodine. Just don't eat top predators like shark, sword fish, or tuna, because they have relatively high mercury content

[darkangel82]

Seaweed? gross.

[saganite]

Whatt’s a pepple?

[Tax-chick]

Fresh seafood is expensive, though, unless you live at the coast.

Looking at the populations they especially want to reach - poor Africans and Asians, South Americans perhaps - I think it would be better overall to look for the sources of iodine in the traditional diet of the people and to emphasize their use, rather than focussing on an artificial source.

[Tax-chick]

You don’t like sushi? Neither do I, actually :-), but the kelp capsules don’t taste like anything, and they don’t feel like you’ve swallowed hot coals, like cayenne capsules do.

[petitfour]

We’ve been buying kosher salt for years—at least for the last five or so. Our youngest two are no doubt the smartest of them all. It must be the fish consumption that has made them so intelligent. Then again, with all of the junk food and fast food that we’ve consumed over the years, I’ve probably gotten plenty of iodized salt in food.

I wonder how Mrs. Edison and Mrs. Einstein managed to birth such brilliant children without the aid of government-forced iodization of salt.

[LukeL]

This sounds like a good idea as iodine isn't found in all soils througout the world, and kelp and seafood is very expensive and can't be found in poor landlocked countries.

I on the otherhand prefer kosher salt as it just taste better and nothing beats the giant salt crystals on a soft pretzel.

[darkangel82]

I usually put cayenne pepper on something, like cocktail shrimp(used to be a New Year’s eve tradition)but I can’t afford that now.

[Tax-chick]

You can’t get a good price on shrimp in Florida? A cocktail shrimp tray at the Wal-mart here is only about $12. It’s not good shrimp, of course, but it’s shrimp! My Italian in-laws (husband’s stepmother and family) have shrimp on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.