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Articles: Recipes | Use Iodine for health
- Nazeer
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Every one should consume iodised salt to get the daily requirement of iodine.
Daily consumption of iodised salt ensures mental and physical health.
Iodine is a micro nutrient needed in minute quantity daily - 150 micrograms [fits on the tip of a hair]
This requirement has to be met daily.
Its deficiency is a public health problem and is the world's leading cause of preventable mental retardation.
High risk group
Pregnant and lactating women
Pre school children
Its deficiency leads to loss of 13 IQ points which results in poor scholastic performance, frequent failures / drop outs / absenteesim; defects of speech and hearing, squint, psychomotor defects; spontaneous abortions, still birth, birth defects; cretinism, goitre.
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