Hi Brenda,

I stopped eating iodised salt a couple of years ago and starting using sea
salt. I developed a severe iodine deficiency which resulted in a goitre that
I still have, despite having resumed eating iodised salt and bringing my
iodine levels to within a normal range.

That said, my part of the world has iodine deficient soil and yours may not.
If it does unless you eat a lot of kelp, salt may be the only way to get
sufficient iodine.

Leonie


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From: "Brenda Young"

 And while I'm here, I'd like to ask for everyone's opinion on iodide in
salt.  I have done zip-zero research on this, but have been wondering about
it for a while.  I use sea salt, of course, but I have recently found that
you can buy it with or without iodide.  I've always bought it without, not
knowing that there were products that did indeed contain it (the sea salt, I
mean).  As we all know, the cartons of salt always say "Does" or "Does Not"
contain idiodide, "a necessary nutrient", which doesn't convince me at all,
but I'd like comments from the group, if ya'all don't mind.  Just as the
"calcium" in Tums is not a bio-available form of calcium, is the iodide in
salt good or bad or indifferent???