Plaque is the stuff of coronary heart disease. It is CONTROLLABLE, it is STOPPABLE, it is REVERSIBLE.
But you must be equipped with the right information on diet, nutritional supplements, and hopefully the avoidance of medication.
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The results of the recent Heart Scan Blog poll are in.
The question:
Do you used iodized salt?
The responses:
Yes, I use iodized salt every day
94 (28%)
Yes, I use iodized salt occasionally
56 (16%)
No, I do not use any iodized salt
41 (12%)
No, I use a non-iodized salt (sea salt, Kosher)
126 (37%)
No, I use a non- or low-sodium substitute
15 (4%)
Thanks for your responses.
If only 28% of people are regular users of iodized salt, that means that the remainder–72%–are at risk for iodine deficiency if they are not getting iodine from an alternative source, such as a multivitamin or multimineral.
Even the occasional users of salt can be at risk. The common perception is that occasional use is probably sufficient to provide iodine. This is probably not true and not just because of the lower quantity of ingestion. Occasional users of salt tend to have their salt canister on the shelf for extended periods. The iodine is then lost, since iodine is volatile. In fact, iodine is virtually undetectable four weeks after a package is opened.
In my office, now that I’m looking for them much more systematically and carefully, I am finding about 2 people with goiters every day. They are not the obvious grotesque goiters of the early 20th century (when quack therapies like the last post, the Golden Medical Discovery, were popular). The goiters I am detecting are small and spongy. Yesterday alone I found 5 people with goiters, one of them visible to the eye and very distressing to the patient.
It seems to me that iodine deficiency is more prevalent than I ever thought. It is also something that is so simple to remedy, though not by increasing salt intake. Kelp tablets–cheap, available–have been working quite well in the office population. My sense is that the Recommended Daily Allowance of 150 mcg per day for adults is low and that many benefit from greater quantities, e.g., 500 mcg. What is is the ideal dose? To my knowledge, nobody has yet generated that data.
Thyroid issues being relatively new to my thinking, I now find it incredible that endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association are not broadcasting this problem at the top of their lungs. This issue needs to be brought to the top of everyone’s attention, or else we’ll have history repeating itself and have goiters and thyroid dysfunction galore.
For more on this topic, see the previous Heart Scan Blog post, “Help keep your family goiter free.”
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Fish.
according to Dr. david derry,"Fish of the great lakes still shows Goiter formation".
http://books.google.ca/books?id=PVWOyP68OMsC&pg=PP1&dq=dr+david+derry&client=firefox-a#PPA6,M1
So even fish's origin is important. apart from fluoride in the tooth paste and fluoride added municipal water which depletes us from iodine. never mind chlorine in the water and bromine in the food and many other goods around us, helps to deplete iodine.
I wonder about the huge amount of food that is imported into the UK from distant locations One can’t assume enough iodine universally throughout the UK based on UK soil content.
Kris – you should eat sea fish and shell fish.
Anne,
Thank you for your advise.
now i am eating sea fish twice a week. but iodine is must for me. my mother’s right side elbow and knee was in bad shape for 35 years. The knee joint was so bad that the joint would come off of it’s position. we had to learn our to self to place it back. as usual, she went to many doctors but no help. she is vegetarian all her life. about six months ago she started applying lugol’s iodine externally on the knee. she was applying religiously 3 times a day for 2 weeks on and one week off. at the end of the two weeks application, the knee would look like war zone. after about month and half, the knee starting to look like normal knee. now she is able to walk about mile and a half every day on the tread mill. she also been taking 3 drops a day internally too. i personally believe in more iodine than we can find in our the food.
Anna:
"Breast Cancer and Iodine" by Dr David M. Derry, Canada