Reducing table salt can have some health benefits, but, cutting iodized salt can mean shorting yourself on an important nutrient - iodine. Our bodies are unable to make this mineral, yet it’s key for ...

These days, you can find dozens of different varieties of salt in almost every grocery store and dozens more in specialty shops. Aleksandr Zubkov via Getty Images Not so long ago, if you asked most ...

Are you one of those who have replaced normal iodised salt with ‘healthier’ options like himalayan pink salt aka sendha namak ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Reducing table salt can have some health benefits, but, cutting iodized salt can mean shorting yourself on an important nutrient —Iodine. Our bodies are unable to make this mineral, ...

Simple goiter (enlargement of the thyroid gland) is one of the few diseases which might be conquered by Act of Congress. Prevalent in a wide “goiter belt” running from western New York through the ...

In the early 20th century, iodine deficiency was ravaging much of the northern United States. The region was widely known as the “goiter belt,” for the goiters - heavily swollen thyroid glands - that ...

I recently talked to coworkers about which kinds of salt their families used, and I was surprised that table and sea salt ...

NEW YORK — The 13-year-old boy came to the clinic with a rapidly ballooning neck. Doctors were puzzled. Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they — and the boy — ...