A French chemist accidentally discovered it in 1811 when an experiment with seaweed ash created a purple ... and had other symptoms of a syndrome once known as “cretinism.” Adding iodine to salt ...

But after iodine supplements were shown to help prevent them, iodised salt was "rolled out" in 1924. By the 1940s, goiters had all but "vanished". Now, thanks to complacency, changing diets and a ...

Thank you for the article explaining why iodine is important in the human diet and why it is put into salt. Sadly, Americans continue to fall victim to promoters of diet fads, pseudoscience ...

A French chemist accidentally discovered it in 1811 when an experiment with seaweed ... but they learned that iodine can essentially be sprayed on table salt. Iodized salt first became available ...

A French chemist accidentally discovered it in 1811 when an experiment with seaweed ... but they learned that iodine can essentially be sprayed on table salt. Iodized salt first became available ...