Show Daily Health Service e I By DR MORRIS l FISHBEIN Japanese as pointed out by Dr J. J F. F n are exceedingly free from goiter He already has made a survey of goiter as asit it occurs all over the world and In all the countries of the world Japan was the country In Lu which goiter was most rare For instance he found only one goiter for every million of ot the Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese people What that w would uld mean the to United States is easy to late If It we had a similar record In Inthis inthis inthis this country there would be approximately goiters in itt the whole coun try Instead there have been many hundred thousands In an m endeavor to explain the exceedingly ex ex- low Incidence of goiter among the Japanese Dr McClendon analyzed numerous specimens of ot seaweed seaweed sea sea- weed from various localities on the Japanese c coast Seaweed is about bout one thousand times as rich in iodine as any other food lood substance C Seaweed is served by the Japanese in n various fashions They often otten eat as much as 10 grams of ot the weed at a single sh meal It is served In a variety of ot ways and under a a number of ot different different differ differ- ent cut names Jn In thIs Is ir supplied particularly for girls of adolescent age in the form of at tablets tablet which they may take during the school year These tablets contain approximately one- one sixth to one tenth one tenth grain each and are given once a week for a period of 40 weeks during the school year It has been well weIl established by studies made in various parts of the United States that goiter is most common common cornmon com corn mon in those sections of the country In n which the water and the soil contain con tain lain the l least st amounts amount of iodine S C These areas areM Include the Pacific northwest and the Great Lakes area These are the sections of ot the country in En which the water is glacier water and In which the vegetables grown on the he soil contain little iodine so that the he meat of animals which feed on the herbage also contains but little iodine In some sections of ot the country attempts attempts at- at tempts are being made to enrich such substances as eggs vegetables and meats with Iodine by f feeding ing Iodine In Inthe inthe the he diets diet of animals The mere fact that the Japanese have but a small amount of goiter because because because be be- cause they use seaweed in their diets need not induce Americans to embark on a a diet of seaweed d for the same pur pur- pose If it is made certain that iodine is provided by iodized salts or by tab- tab lets ets the preventive measure will have been carried out suitably I |