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People are downvoting you because they think that they know that salt is only NaCl. They refuse to understand that nature does not provide NaCl. Chemistry made

by amalag 12y ago

People are downvoting you because they think that they know that salt is only NaCl. They refuse to understand that nature does not provide NaCl. Chemistry made people think they could purify non-edible salt. They removed all trace elements and people got diseases caused by a lack of those elements. So companies readded iodine to cure the obvious problems. I agree completely with you, I will only take proper natural salt, not bogus purified chemical salt.

ceejayoz 12y ago
Nothing wrong with enjoying your sea salt - you'll probably get plenty of iodine from water, flour, milk, eggs, seafood, etc. - but goiters and other mineral deficiency-related diseases happened long before we started making purified salt with chemistry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre > Chinese physicians of the Tang Dynasty (618–907) were the first to successfully treat patients with goitre by using the iodine-rich thyroid gland of animals such as sheep and pigs—in raw, pill, or powdered form. > Goitre was previously common in many areas that were deficient in iodine in the soil. For example, in the English Midlands, the condition was known as Derbyshire Neck. In the United States, goitre was found in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Intermountain regions. The condition now is practically absent in affluent nations, where table salt is supplemented with iodine. However, it is still prevalent in India, China Central Asia and Central Africa.
- code_reuse 12y ago
  > Nothing wrong with enjoying your sea salt - you'll probably get plenty of iodine from water, flour, milk, eggs, seafood, etc. Seaweed an even more potent source of iodine, and the Japanese eat a lot of it. The concentration of iodine in these marine plants ranges from 0.5-8.0 mg/g. Terrestrial plants, in contrast, contain only trace amounts of iodine, 0.001 mg/g. In 1964, the Nutrition Section of Japan's Bureau of Public Health found that people in Japan consumed a daily average of 4.5 g of seaweed with measured iodine content of 3.1 mg/g, or 13.8 mg of iodine. Saltwater fish and shellfish contain iodine, but one would have to eat 15-25 pounds of fish to get 13 mg of iodine. [Nutrition Section, Bureau of Public Health. Nutrition in Japan, 1964. Tokyo, Japan: Ministry of Health and Welfare; 1965. ]

by amalag 12y ago

ceejayoz 12y ago

Nothing wrong with enjoying your sea salt - you'll probably get plenty of iodine from water, flour, milk, eggs, seafood, etc. - but goiters and other mineral deficiency-related diseases happened long before we started making purified salt with chemistry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre > Chinese physicians of the Tang Dynasty (618–907) were the first to successfully treat patients with goitre by using the iodine-rich thyroid gland of animals such as sheep and pigs—in raw, pill, or powdered form. > Goitre was previously common in many areas that were deficient in iodine in the soil. For example, in the English Midlands, the condition was known as Derbyshire Neck. In the United States, goitre was found in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Intermountain regions. The condition now is practically absent in affluent nations, where table salt is supplemented with iodine. However, it is still prevalent in India, China Central Asia and Central Africa.

code_reuse 12y ago
> Nothing wrong with enjoying your sea salt - you'll probably get plenty of iodine from water, flour, milk, eggs, seafood, etc. Seaweed an even more potent source of iodine, and the Japanese eat a lot of it. The concentration of iodine in these marine plants ranges from 0.5-8.0 mg/g. Terrestrial plants, in contrast, contain only trace amounts of iodine, 0.001 mg/g. In 1964, the Nutrition Section of Japan's Bureau of Public Health found that people in Japan consumed a daily average of 4.5 g of seaweed with measured iodine content of 3.1 mg/g, or 13.8 mg of iodine. Saltwater fish and shellfish contain iodine, but one would have to eat 15-25 pounds of fish to get 13 mg of iodine. [Nutrition Section, Bureau of Public Health. Nutrition in Japan, 1964. Tokyo, Japan: Ministry of Health and Welfare; 1965. ]