6 issue of the American Thyroid Association, “New England Journal of Medicine” published reports that people should pay attention while reducing salt to iodine.
Reported that, although the United States 20 years from the last century began in salt iodization, but as more and more Americans to reduce salt intake, the results in the past 30 years, the average American body iodine content decreased by 50%.
Reported that although most Americans still adequate dietary intake of iodine, but many pregnant women and infants in iodine intake is below standard. American Thyroid Association recommends that pregnant and lactating women, daily intake of 150 micrograms of iodine.
Iodine is a trace element required for one of the human body. Iodine deficiency not only causes goiter, but also affect brain development. The human body needs iodine mainly from food, the current common practice is to salt iodization

