Anne Croucher ... this is a little bit of a thread creep, but maybe NOT too much. I mentioned my Finnish heritage and the heavy diet of Rye flours, rich milk (Viilii), etc. Two of my aunts, my uncle and my father all had goiters. I was diagnosed, when I was twelve, as having the beginnings of a goiter. The remedy, successful by the way, in the late fourties and early fifty was IODINE. For many years, until "iodized salt" became available, every day I would drink a teaspoon of iodine with a glass of water. Weird eh ...! Bob(deckman)Nelson