Introduction Iodine was joined with seaweed at birth as Courtois in 1811 in France searching on behalf of his emperor for sources of nitrates to use in gunpowder found that seaweed when burned gave off a vapour. In 1813, Gay Lussac named this
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. Perhaps this reflects the relatively low seaweed abundance around Greek shores [ 12 ]. These findings put into question the historical understanding that populations living in mountainous regions are more at risk of poor iodine status than populations
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Greenlandic food items ( 4 ). The traditional Greenlandic diet includes iodine-rich seaweed ( 5 ), and previous studies have shown that intake of Greenlandic seaweed exceeded the iodine intake recommended by the WHO and a single meal caused a transient rise in
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synthesis and are essential to the developing fetal skeletal and central nervous systems [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Recommended amounts of iodine can be obtained by eating a variety of foods including fish, seaweed, dairy products and products made from grains as
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intake due to the ingestion of seaweeds is 1.2 mg/day in Japan . Thyroid . 2008 Jun ; 18 ( 6 ): 667 – 8 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/thy.2007.0379 21 Kahaly GJ , Bartalena L , Hegedüs L , Leenhardt L , Poppe K , Pearce SH . 2018
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seaweed and overcooked sea sponge [ 4 ]. A large number of studies have shown the effect of iodine supplementation on the epidemiology of goiter [ 5 , 6 , 7 ]. In two surveys conducted in Pescopagano [ 8 , 9 ], an Italian village with a previous moderate
