> Do other countries, notably in the west alo have a policy of
> universal iodization of salt? Is common or natural salt sold in
> other countries? Do health hazards occur as a result of excess
> consumption of iodine?
I'm not qualified to speak to the health issues, but I can tell you
that at the local (Madison- and Milwaukee-area) food co-ops and
"health food" stores, it is possible to buy sea salt that is not
artificially iodized. The same is true in my "home" neighborhood in
San Francisco (Mission) and was so when I lived in the Delaware
River Valley (SE Penna., northern Delmarva Peninsula, and South
Jersey).
Here is a food safety information bulletin from the UK Ministry of
Ag, Food, and Fisheries, which contains some info on iodine in milk:
http://www.maff.gov.uk/food/bulletin/1997/no88/cot.htm
Here is a newsletter focusing on Hashimoto's disease (autoimmune
thyroiditis), including the potential role of iodine:
http://www.thyrolink.com/gland/gla196b.htm
See the section on dietary iodine. This article contains extensive
references.
Here's the next-level-up URL for this site:
http://www.thyrolink.com/gland/gland.htm
Here's an article by the Latin American Thyroid Society on "before
begining [sic] a salt iodination program,...."
http://www.icb2.usp.br/~lats/BURGI.HTM
This article includes a section on the interactive roles of iodine
and selenium in the diet:
http://www.med.virginia.edu/~jtd/iccidd/idddocs/idd293.htm
If you do a World Wide Web search on "dietary iodine" you'll turn up
a bunch more hits; this was the ten-minute answer to D.
Parthasarathy's question. Hope it helps, and thanks so much for
asking, because someone in Wisconsin had had a question about
Hashimoto's that I had no info on, and this search turned up the
answer!
There was a time in my life when very careful monitoring of my diet
was required, and I switched from Morton (Morton Thiokol, the defense
contractor) iodized table salt to non-iodized Hain and later bulk sea
salt. I got sufficient iodine in my diet by adding a few sea
vegetables or dairy products. At the time, dairy products were out of
my diet. But sea vegies were OK. I later could eat eggs,
freshwater/farmed fishes, and grains again. I can tell you from
personal experience that when I have dairy in my diet, my thyroid
(and hormonal) balances get very iffy. Oops. I'm not allowed to admit
that, writing from Cheezeland. :^) OK. I never said that.
peace
misha
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