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WintersTablet t1_irdzxf2 wrote

More specifically, iodine deficiency causes goiters, neurocognitive impairments, and in severe deficiency, hypothyroidism resulting in cretinism.

Akron, Ohio was where a whole bunch of school girls were given iodized salt with their parents permission, with resounding results.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3509517/

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DavoTB t1_ire5ga4 wrote

Interesting. A neighbor of ours grew up in this area, and later developed a goiter. Wonder if she suffered from hypothyroidism herself.

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zerkalo003 t1_irhicjn wrote

I was suffering from hypthridism in cmnt childhood and i took idione.

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SaltedGreenMilk1987 t1_irey8kg wrote

Are all salts (Reed salt from kenya, Pink salt in Pakistan,Common salt from the seas) same or do they have special properties. Do they have varying levels of iodine?

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Happiercalif t1_irezbms wrote

Iodine is added to salt artificially. In nature it's in seafood and I'm not sure where else.

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RunningNumbers t1_irh332d wrote

It distributes on land from evaporated ocean water. Plants and grazing animals then absorb it. You can get plenty of iodine from mills. Mountains are often iodine deficient since most water runs down hill rather than gets into the soil.

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Happiercalif t1_irhdom4 wrote

I don't think that's true except possibly for very near the ocean. In the 1990s I read research about the Mongolians being very iodine deficient.

EDIT if you look up the Goiter Belt, it doesn't correlate to mountains. The Great Lakes region was especially bad, for instance.

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RunningNumbers t1_irhf8ia wrote

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b05533#

Historically oceans have been seen as a primary source of iodine I precipitation but apparently there are other sources in the water cycle.

Also ocean precipitation goes far in land. Rain clouds that from into the Gulf of Mexico go well into Canada. They intercept cold fronts coming south and make T storms.

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RunningNumbers t1_irhffdr wrote

You should look again at the map and then look at topography of the US before you make that assertion about correlation.

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WintersTablet t1_irezg50 wrote

All salts have natural iodine, but not enough for the recommended daily allowance. The right amount is added in the factories.

For the most part, natural iodine is found in food, mainly seafoods, but it's also in plants that grow in places that weren't ablated by glaciers. These areas were known as the goiter belt.

And all the different salts, even the most expensive stuff, are functionally the same. One may taste better to you over the other due to taste bud differences formed by the foods you eat, or size of crystals, or other small things. But, in general, salt is salt.

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DrEnter t1_irf11i3 wrote

Kosher salt and most “gourmet” salts are NOT iodized. You can get some decent iodized sea salts or course grind salts, but you have to look for them. They will always say iodized on the label.

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WintersTablet t1_irf2g2k wrote

True that those don't have added iodine. I guess I didn't elaborate enough when I said it's added in the factories.

Although all salt has a trace amount of iodine naturally, it's not enough for RDA. So the labeled iodized salt has iodine added in the factory.

Also, I might add... Iodine is a poison, yes. The amount of table salt needed to consume would kill you long before any I'll effects of iodine were felt.

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ShasOFish t1_irgiq9i wrote

It’s like bananas. If you eat a sufficient number of them, the cumulative radiation would kill you. The necessary number of bananas would kill you first though.

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WintersTablet t1_irhlvuy wrote

Fun fact, original bananas are extinct due to blight. The ones we have today are remakes, but don't taste the same. If you want to taste what an old one tasted like, try a banana laughy taffy.

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Next-Oven4964 t1_irkry9h wrote

They aren't exactly extinct. You can still buy a Gros Michel banana that laffy taffy was based on. It's just gonna cost you somewhere in the ballpark of 15-26$ a pound lol

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UsyPlays t1_irf1uj7 wrote

With family in Pakistan I never realised that pink rock salt was seen as fancy in most of the world, we just have it with fruit most of the time

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ValorPhoenix t1_irfzlb7 wrote

Generally speaking, sea salts and other special salts don't have Iodine added. It will be called Iodonized salt, and is just basic plain white table salt. The product labeling should mention it.

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RunningNumbers t1_irh2vwo wrote

You have to add it. Those fancy salts do not usually have added iodine. It says so on the labels.

So if you like goiters…

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kurmanga t1_irfltpg wrote

Idonie deficiency can cause lots of disease in human beings irl.

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fullofspagget t1_irf75yq wrote

what in the heeell is cretinism?! is this another invented jargon?

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fullofspagget t1_irf7f1k wrote

nevermind, I just looked it up and I think I have cretinism for missing on this.

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WintersTablet t1_irfax6o wrote

Yep. It's a legitimate medical thing. It's not just an insult by bougie people.

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