Posted on 07/27/2013 4:02:06 PM PDT by dennisw
Edited on 07/27/2013 4:45:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A new study indicates that Americans gained up to 15 IQ points after the addition of iodine to salt became mandatory.
In an effort to prevent goiter related to iodine deficiency, authorities ruled that iodine be added to U.S. salt products in 1924.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It doesn't actually even taste like salt, once you've had sea salt.
“...once you’ve had sea salt.”
Only two are ‘worth their salt’ - Redmond RealSalt and Himalayan Salt. These are both from ancient seabeds laid down eons ago, and are not fresh, wet sea salt, as in ‘Celtic Salt’, with all the contaminations in the sea today.
Now we know why the demomcRATs want to ban salt.
good information!
Same applies to fluorides as bromides? That you take more iodine to knock fluorides off receptors? I use an alumina water filter that gets out fluorides
Flouride and Chlorine are both toxic halides that block iodine absorption but I don’t believe they attach to the receptors. Below is a link of the detox symptoms for bromide only. I have not seen anything on flouride.
http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/bromidedetoxsymptomsandstrategies.html
what’s so funny?
Gen. Jack D. Ripper: precious bodily fluids, anybody?
How's the mortuary business? ;^)
no one has ever thought of that meme before!!!!!111!111!
Or maybe the critics of iodized salt are also promoting their iodine free product:
Himalayan salt - Wikipedia
Himalayan salt is rock salt (halite) mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan. The salt, which often has a pinkish tint due to trace minerals, is primarily ...
Smarter? Oh really? Must be 40 percent of Americans don't used iodized salt.
No, seriously.
People quit using table salt, which is the salt that iodine was added to and started using things like sea salt, which has some but not much and kosher salt which contains none.
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