This article made me a little sad. The article is about how people with a fear of iodine overdose resisted the idea of adding it to salt on first place. I spe

This article made me a little sad. The article is about how people with a fear of iodine overdose resisted the idea of adding it to salt on first place. I spent my childhood in Brazil, a country where there are a good amount of natural iodine. Yet the government decided to ignore the risks, seemly well known for more than a century, and jack up the iodine in the salt to levels beyond what any international standard recommend or tested. And now I hypothyroidism caused by iodine overdose.