Lots going on right now

[Sassy]

Concise synopsis, Considerations, thanks! 

A few months ago I read a book on the importance of iodine - especially if you have thyroid problems - which I have (hypothyroid).  We don't consume enough iodine in the US.  I bought some bottles of Lugol's iodine - don't take it everyday but a couple drops about 2x's week.  Lugol's has both iodine & potassium iodide & when I bought it, it was pretty cheap.

Even w/all my reading recently since the problems in Japan, I didn't catch that the iodine didn't protect for the other types of radiation.  Oh well, we're all gonna die someday    At least the Japanese eat a lot more foods w/iodine in it - although it won't protect them from the rest.

We stopped eating iodized salt a few years ago when we started using RealSalt from Utah.  No iodine in that!

[peternap]

Seems to me, back in the hills a lot of old people got goiter from not eating Iodized salt.

[considerations]

Yes, goiter is seldom seen amongst people living near a sea coast just because of the iodine that gets into the air from sea water.  I have a branch of ancestors from Iowa, and during the 1800's there are anecdotes about various family members with goiter.

[Sassy]

My great grandmother from Minnesota had goiter...