The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
IODINE IN FOOD

IODINE IN FLUID
 Ideally one should get the neces~ sary amount of iodine in food and drinking water. Perhaps some peo- pie do. But iodine as 1t occurs in nature dodides or compounds of iodine) is so very soluble that it Is constantly dissolved out Of th0 soil and carried from elevated re- gions down the streams and rivers to the seat. Sea water and all fish and shell-fish from the sea ara rich in iodine, whether consumed raw. cooked, canned, dried, smoked or salted. Dried kelp and Irish moss Otherwise known as chondrus and carrageen) contain some iodine.
 In the Great Lakes basin Gin Canada and in the United States) the soil is poor in iodine. likewise the drinking water and the food Vegetables, cereals, fruts, milk, eggs. meaD grown on the soil. Hence endemic goitre prevails in that region of the country and peo- pie living there, as well as live stock, require some regular iodine ration to supplement the natural iodine in food and water.
 Since tho use of iodized salt in- stead of ordinary salt has become popular in the entire Great Lakes region, the prevalence of simple goitre among school children and older persons has shown a striking decrease. Moreover the number of operations for all forms of goitre in the large hospitals has diminished. Iodized salt looks tastes and in every way Is the same as ordinary salt, and 1t costs the same, con. tainS little If any more iodine than one gets in, say, canned salmon-probably a pound of ca1l- ned salmon contains as much iodine as a pound of iodiZed salt. So 1t is absurd to imagine any one can detect iodized salt by its taste or that any one can possibly get too much iodine from iodized salt or that any one can get any i'll effect from iodize salt that ordinary salt would not cause. Wherever you live 1t is advisable in my opinion, to use iodized salt instead of ordinary sale for all domestic purposes. think this is advisable whether one takes an iodin Ration or not.
 am an obstinate cuss when it comes to taking medicine-I'll take anything doctor orders me to take so long as I am under the doctors care, but aside from that, If you don't mind, I'll worry along without it-except my regular ra- tion of vitamins. somersaults, belly breathing and iodine.
 Too many correspondents tell ms how much iodine they take and ask me to approve of 1t, I cannot ap- prove of the practice of taking any more iodine or iodine compound than the amount mentioned in thG Instruction for Taking an Iodin Ration. In fact I advise you not to take iodine or any compound of 1t in medicinal dose unless under your physicians direction. The amount of iodine in the Iodin Ra- ton I recommend for practically everybody is not medicinal, but only the nutritiVe quantity required to maintain good metabolism and good health.
 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Young Folk and Old Folk
 Regarding the calcium, VitaminS and so forth you recommended for "old timers.' would they be of any benefit for woman now ninety years of age? Mrs. H. M. S)
 Answer-What's thirty years more or less between friends. Of course yITtn ninety as much as a person aged 30. Send stamped envelope bearing your address, for the pamphlet Young Folks and Old Folks"
 Give the Baby Break
 After fifteen years of married life we are blessed with our first baby now ten weeks old, and although friends made all sorts of gloomy prognostications about a woman of my age having her first baby, thanks to that wonderful booklet Preparing for Maternity" I breezed through the whole thing with the greatest of feast we love and cuddle him now and then, though l suppose we shouldn't.
 (Mrs. R. O.
 Answer-No objection to cuddling the baby occasionally, provided he is all paid for and provided you spelled 1t correctly. Cuddling, not coddling.
 Don't Take Life Seriously
 I will be forty next month, but I drag around as though 1t were eighty. Bless you for the chuckles you so often serve us. I want to know more about the Seven Wells" or whatever it is that you offered readers who are feeling bit an- cient. (Mrs. F. s. P)
 Answer twenty five cents and stamped envelope bearing your address. for booklet The Seven Keys to Vite."
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