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Why is Iodine Added to Salt? (2016x232)

Air date: Nov 03, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Is Salt Actually Bad for You? https://youtu.be/XLZOiG4etXo?list=PLR0XuDegDqP01NqW8KRpOy-_y2m6S2VEF Why Salt Preserves Meat https://youtu.be/6g4tSSjpo6M?list=PLR0XuDegDqP01NqW8KRpOy-_y2m6S2VEF In this video: Iodine first began being added to salt commercially in the United States in 1924 by the Morton Salt Company at the request of the government. This was done as a response to the fact that there were certain regions in the U.S., such as around the Great Lakes and in the Pacific Northwest, where people weren’t getting enough iodine in their diets due to it not being prevalent in the soil in those regions. Among other problems, this caused many people to develop goiters (swelling of the thyroid gland, also sometimes spelled “goitre”). Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/06/why-iodine-is-added-to-salt/ Sources: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99535.htm http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002174/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargassum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl3/iodine-in-salt.html http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-facts/question367.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodised_salt http://www.mortonsalt.com/faqs/food-salt-faqs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IodoAtomico.JPG