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If it were common enough in available foods then they wouldn't have added it to table salt.
by naasking 3y ago
If it were common enough in available foods then they wouldn't have added it to table salt.
- hilux 3y agoIIRC this was added long ago, when Americans ate less meat, dairy, and seafood and were more prone to malnutrition.
- naasking 3y agoAnd yet, levels have been measurably going down, and Europeans are already fairly deficient since they don't have as many iodine supplementation programs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459956/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459956/ https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/iodine.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/iodine.htm