The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-29
NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF
 IODINE

A cubic mile of sea water con- tains minimum of 90 tons of io- dine and, in the neighborhood of beds of sea weeds (kelp ard spong- es, from ten to a hundred times as much, according to Taylor (Jour. of the Franklin Institute, Aug. 32). All of the iodine occurs in nature not as elemental iodine but as chemical compounds of iodine, both inorganic iodides and organic con- pounds. These iodine compounds are mostly so soluble in water that they are being leached from the soil by the water of rain. melted snow and glaciers, wells, springs, rivers and carried down to the sea. When the water is evaporated from the surface of the sea (about one yard depth of 1t over the entire ocean a year-or 71,389 cubic miles of water, enough to provide an average of 22 inches of rainfall over the entire land surface of the globe if we assume 29.2796 of the earth's surface is land-these are MT. Taylor's figures and they may be right or they may be wrong, for all know about it. but they're in- teresting, aren't they? - when the water is evaporated from the sea 1t is as pure as the purest distilled water, leaving all mineral matter or organic matter in the ocean and the water vapor (invisible) in the air is again carried over the land by wind, to fall again as rain or snow and bring another load of mineral and organic material back to the ocean, and so on forever and ever.
 Therefore the land especially in mountainous regions and plateaus, tablelands or mesas, is likely to be poor in iodine as in the water irl such regions, whether from springs wells or straems, lakes or reservoirs of the watershed. Likewise the ce- reals, fruit and vegetables. the pas turage, forage and feed. grown in such regions are poor in iodine. Finally the milk, eggs, beef, pork, mutton, fowl raised in such regions are deficient in iodine. Finally everybody, infant child, youth, and adult living in such a region is likely to suffer from shortage of iodine.
 Nowhere in North America do the inhabitants of any particular region suffer so much from cretin- ism (dwarfted mental and physical develpmeont, or from myXedema (firm inelastic swelling of skin which does not pit on pressure, mental hebetude, subnormal tenn perature, dryness and loss of hair, etc.) as the inhabitants of certain regions in the Swiss Alps. In Aus tria, France, Sicily, India, Italy, do or have done. Prevailed so com monly in times past that the term "Derbyshire neck" was given to 1t. Tn times past. because today there is less isolation. Modern transpor- tation brings foods from distant areas, even some sea food to the remotest communities, and hence, more iodine.
 Nutrition authorities stim te that every one needs from SO to 200 micrograms of iodine daily to maintain good nutrition and good health, or, say one-four-hu -hundredth of a grain.
 The Iodin Ration I recommend for everybody, man, woman and child, is a tablet containing 150 micrograms of iodine-one should eat one Iodin Ration tablet every day for prevention, three, tablets every day for correction of cretin- ism, myxedema, hypothy foidism or any of the manifestatiorH (to be de- scribed later) of iodirA deficiency.
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