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Thread #143503   Message #3312649
Posted By: Deckman
24-Feb-12 - 08:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Childhood folk medicine
Subject: RE: BS: Childhood folk medicine
That's very accurate. Goiters ran in my father's family. Some of my aunts and uncles had HUGE goiters. They were all Finnish, and there is a now well known connection of the traditional Finnish diet and goiters. I was required to drink three drops of iodine a day, with water, starting abou 1948. By 1950 "iodized table salt" became available in America. The doctor said this would do the trick and I use it today, as do my children.

Thanks for the observation. bob(deckman)nelson