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Rick Strong <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:20:59 -0500
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Rachel,  does sea salt contain enough iodine to prevent thyroid related
deficiency?? Thank you.  Rick
matesz wrote:

> Unrefined, sun dried, mineral-rich sea salt has a slightly gray color and is
> a slightly wet and often coarse and chunky.  It contains no added iodine
> (only what is naturally found in sea water), chemicals, stabilizers,
> free-flowing agents, aluminum or dextrose. It contains as many as 83
> different trace minerals, including magnesium. Though present in small
> quantities that may seem insignificant, these minerals, which are absent
> from refined salt, can enhance digestion, assimilation, and numerous other
> metabolic processes.  This salt  contains  less sodium chloride than
> commercial sea salt (86% sodium chloride vs. 99.99%).
>

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