The health hazards of fluoride (long) - misc.kids

Message from discussion The health hazards of fluoride (long)
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From: t...@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: The health hazards of fluoride (long)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 17:25:24 GMT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 18:25:24 1990

h...@deimos.caltech.edu (Helen Johnston) writes:
...
>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"

But you can get it iodized or plain...  I was under the impression the
iodine is to prevent goiter (as another poster also noted...)  I've
bought both iodized and plain and never noticed a difference in moisture
absorption.  (I think the Morton's plain also has the "When it rains,
it pours" slogan on the box, but am unsure about that.)