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From: Mike Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]Some
persons have mailed me saying that IODIZED SALT would
properlyfill up the THYROID with IODINE and prevent the
collection of RADIOACTIVEIODINE 131.
Evidently this is not the case.It is definitely not
the case. One would succumb to sodium poisoning if one tried
to get enough iodine via table salt to be effective against
radioactive iodine iosotopesFor some
reason IODINE has been added to table salt for the last 50
yearsprobably relating to nuclear testing in the western
states. [sigh]It would be nice if people
would do a modicum of research before posting bullshit like
this...If one does not get enough iodine in one's diet
the thyroid gland can become underactive, and one develops a goiter,
an enlarged thyroid gland, which results from the remaining active
portion of the thyroid gland -- a butterfly-shaped gland in the
front of the neck -- trying to take up the slack of the inactive
portion of the gland...Most people get enough iodine
via diet (sans iodized salt), *IF* they live in coastal areas; even
if they don't eat fish, there is enough iodine in the sea that it is
both vaporized in the air and is in the ground, so people both
breath in trace amounts of iodine and gain iodine via eating crops
grown in coastal areas...The term 'coastal area'
doesn't mean the area just immediate adjacent to saltwater, but for
some hundreds of miles inland...But people who lived
in the middle of the continent, far away from any body of saltwater,
tended to suffer from goiterism before the introduction of iodized
salt. If people living in the midwest and mountain states
somehow were able to eat sea fish (say, canned sardines, canned
tuna, canned shrimp, etc.), then they would have sufficient iodine
in their diet to avoid goiterism...But the common diet
of American midwesterners and mountain-state residents of the early
20th century rarely included sufficient amounts of sea fish, even of
the canned variety. So it was decided that an easy way to
avoid having children in those geographic areas developing goiterism
was to introduce iodine into table salt. Iodine was introduced
into table salt in the late 30s and early 40s, long before nuclear
bombs and radioactivity entered the picture.And let me
strongly reiterate -- one would die of sodium poisoning if one tried
to get enough iodine to protect the thyroid gland via table salt
alone...But it
doesntappear that table salt with IODINE would be
sufficient to insulate theTHRYOID GLAND from RADIOACTIVE
IODINE 131.See my comment above; one would die of
sodium poisoning if one tried to get enough iodine via table salt
for this purpose... June
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