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The health hazards of fluoride
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From: h...@deimos.caltech.edu (Helen Johnston)
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Subject: Re: The health hazards of fluoride
Summary: Iodine in table salt
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Date: 7 Oct 90 22:55:34 GMT
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In article <1990Oct6.204509.17...@ariel.unm.edu>, bev...@gauss.unm.edu (Mathemagician) writes...
>Alvin Sylvain writes asking why iodine is put into table salt.
>
>Sort of for the same reason that they put fluoride into the water.
>The makers of salt at some point came to the realization on their
>own or were coerced (I don't know which) that hypothyroidism is
>a problem. Since many Americans use table salt frequently, they
>could put it in their salt and nobody would notice any difference
>in taste.
Actually, if I recall correctly from Margaret Visser's (sp.?) marvelous
book "Much depends on dinner", iodine in salt is put in to cut down on
absorption of moisture, so the salt cellars don't clog. That's why
whichever brand of salt it is - Morton's? - has as its slogan
"Iodized salt. When it rains, it pours"
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