Show Daily Health Service By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Activity of at your thyroid gland de depends depends do- do upon the amount of i iodine dine you get in your food For this reason rea rca son this mineral salt Is essential to your body It Jt Is particularly essential essen essen essen- in the diets of growing children and of women who are going to have babies The amount of Iodine in th the human human human hu hu- hu- hu man body normally is Js very small less than one thousandth one-thousandth of ot a gram When the thyroid thyr id gland is overactive th there re Is more than a I normal supply of iodine In in the blood When this gland I is under under- active the tho iodine in the blood is fa below normal To this extent tho the amount o of iodine in the blood is a me measure sure o othe of the activity of the gland Ordinarily your body gets enough Iodine in lit drinking water and in table salt snit so that you do not have hav to to seek an additional amoun amount through food Certain sections o of the country however provide glacier glacier glacier gla gla- cier water to a largo large extent am and this water contains Insufficient iodine Furthermore table salt has hu been so refined in many places that i It also is lx free from iodine To Tomake make up for this deficiency table salts can no now be purchased with added iodine thus making sure that the human body will wUl get a sufficient amount of this substance Some modern table salts have hav added to them not only iodine but bu calcium phosphate to prevent th the salt alt from c caking or to enable it to torun torun torun run freely and a little sodium car car- benato to stabilize the iodine that tha has been added Nutritional authorities are convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced that especially prepared iodized salts saltA of this type are most moat mos useful In human nutrition In addition to iodine there ar are potassium and sulphur in the human human hu hu- hu man body But experts are convinced convinced con con- vinced that the average American need not worry about the supply o of these then substances since they are present in many foods If food supplies are sufficient In other ways there will always be enough potassium and sulphur Sodium and chlorine which make up common salt also are quite sufficient in the diet of the average person There are many arguments that point to the danger of excessive sodium chloride or table salt and future articles will discuss the various relationships of ot taking of such salt to disease |