In a message dated 7/3/2007 10:40:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I cannot find this post in the mail. Anyhow, I hope this list will look into iodine--it is like nothing else I have experienced!! Very telling info at _altcancer.com_ (http://altcancer.com/) , especially regarding how chlorine in water and bromine in bread will actually displace iodine in the body. This is a terrible thing for immunity. And the extremely LOW, LOW levels of iodine present in the diet here along with halogen displacement ( fluorine too) are, imho, greatly responsible for the low health levels of people in the U.S. Look at Japan where daily intake of this nutrient is between 12.5 and 13.5 GRAMS and we are only recommended 150 MICROGRAMS. That number may be off some but not by much. I urge everyone to look into this. pj I agree, I believe a lot of the public throughout their lives end up sweating out far more iodine than they take in and suffer greatly for it. I just want to add that although I'm on board with you that we are generally iodine starved, I believe it's actually 12.5 MILLIgrams, not grams. 12.5 milligrams is over 8,000% of the American RDA for iodine. Of course we all know that our RDAs are often borderline catastrophic. JD ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
