Show Federal Agriculture Department Urges Use Of Iodized Salt i WASHINGTON Many people think of iodine as a brown liquid in inthe inthe the medicine chest rather than something that has to do with food or a food essential Yet the body needs small but steady quantities o o 0 the stuff for normal growth and development The simplest most practical and least expensive way to make sure that all people especially young and growing children get the iodine Iodine Io 10 io- io I dine they need Is to use iodized I salt This Is why the US U.S. department of agriculture Is operating co-operating with the US U.S. public health service service- and physicians nutritionists and other groups concerned with national national na na- he health In health in a campaign for general use of iodized salt Homemakers Homemakers Home Home- makers are urged to look for the word iodized when buying salt at a grocery to make sure they are getting this small but Important bit of health protection for their families Since only one part iodine in 10 10 parts salt In needed iodized salt is no more expensive than salt without this nutrient It seems that the major salt are willIng willing will will- ing to comply with the demand for forIt forIt forit It so lets let's not overlook the chance As a little review iodine Is essential es- es essential essential es es- for a healthy thyroid gland which In turn affects general well well- being of the body as well as growth Iodine hunger is the cause of much fatigue among adolescents the physicians say Also physicians clans have found md that giving iodine to mothers has reduced miscarriages miscarriages miscarriages and aided mothers in having havIng having hav hav- ing enough milk for their Infants The use of iodized salt in areas where goiter was prevalent has proved a most effective means of preventing this disease Now iodine is naturally present in the salt from the ocean and Inmany in inmany inmany many local salt deposits in the earth but as with many refined foods this iodine is lost in refinIng ing Returning iodine to salt is similar to enriching flour to make makeup makeup makeup up for the vitamins and minerals removed from the grain in milling |