Yeh and the funny thing is most of the fancy and expensive salts aren't iodised... Milk and fish are other sources though.
I just did a bit more reading about it, the Australian Thyroid Foundation website has some information about it, as does the Australian Centre for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders site - they are the group who did the study in '03-04 into deficiency in Australia. There's some interesting stuff in their brochure about the National Iodine Nutrition Study.
Sad to see in some countries (eg Tibet) its a really serious problem (it causes cretinism) that can be solved so cheaply by iodizing their salt...
Many countries require all salt to be iodized - unfortunately not so in Australia ... yet ...
I found this pearler on the babycentre website: "WHO rates the average Australian as having a mild iodine deficiency problem." !!?
Last edited by jja; September 27th, 2006 at 06:02 PM.
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