What does iodine and shellfish have in common?
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Common questions in healthcare. The answer is that shellfish collect iodine and hold onto it like a sponge holds water. Until iodized salt came around, those folks in the midwest, far from any salt-water shellfish, had problems with not having enough iodine in their diet, so they would end up with goiters. If you eat shellfish, you'll get the same reaction to medical iodine.
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Iodine is very important.  Your body needs iodine in order to successfully synthesize the thyroid hormones (t3,t4). Thyroid hormones control the levels of metabolism throughout the body. If there is a iodine deficiency it will lead to an enlarged thyriod gland called a goiter (giant lump around your neck).  \n\nOutside of salt, seafood is a good source of iodine
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chlorine, Cl2, bromine, Br2, or iodine, I2 or fluorine
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There's really no foods you should avoid. I have hypothyroidism myself and I think my endocrinologist said something about eating more food with iodized salt in it, since it deals with iodine deficiency. But if your on medication for it there really isn't a need for it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellfish
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OK, while oysters are good for many people, folks with liver disease cannot eat shellfish, and that includes oysters.  I have a cat with liver disease (and I know, not related, right?) who can't have seafood-derived catfood since shellfish can and will be in there.  Same thing for people, since the liver does the same thing in cats as people.\n\nShellfish are bottom feeders.  They absorb and can't get rid of all the nasty things in the ocean, like mercury and lead.  These heavy metals are deadly to your liver.  Your liver will try to get rid of these metals and be unable to do so, leading to acute liver failure.  It is practically a guarantee that with each oyster you will encounter heavy metals due to the fact that we don't know where each piece of ocean meat comes from, and all the waters off the US, Arica, and Asia are quite polluted anyway -- no oysters for you, my dear, no matter how cooked they may be.
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Iodine is a vital nutrient.  It is necessary for the function of the thyroid gland.  Since not everyone eats shellfish, which is a natural source, someone decided it would be a good idea to add it to table salt.\n\nSodium iodide is given for radiation exposure.  There are some communities near some nuclear reactors where the people are given sodium iodide tablets to take in case of a radiation release.  Although I am not sure of the exact mechanism, I believe that it is given because the iodine can bind with certain radioactive isotopes you may have inhaled (or otherwise gotten into your body) and help you eliminate it from your body before it can do a lot of harm.
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From the Mayo Clinic:\n"Nutritionally speaking, kosher salt and sea salt are no different than table salt. The difference between these types of salt primarily concerns their taste and texture. Salt can be harvested from seawater through evaporation (sea salt), or it can be mined from inland deposits (rock salt). Either can be fully refined, and the end result is pure sodium chloride. Variations in the refining process result in different forms of salt."\nhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sea-salt/AN01142\n\nFrom HealthyEatingClub.com:\n"Essentially there is no difference between the two. Sea salt and ordinary salt are basically identical in that they both contain sodium and chloride. The slight difference lies in the impurities. Sea salt is made from sea water and contains trace amounts of other substances found in sea water such as magnesium, iodine and zinc."\nhttp://www.healthyeatingclub.com/bookstore/foodqa/ch2/2-32.htm\n\nFrom National Health Review:\n" Sea salt is not more healthful than regular salt. Salt is sodium chloride, no matter from what its derivation. Sea salt is essentially sodium chloride, and refined salt, obtained from the sea, has little nutritional advantage."\n"http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0876/is_n56/ai_9164628"\n\nFrom a health forum search engine:\nhttp://dnoneoftheabove.com/?cx=002486926153363561559%3Ayblv8b6jj6c&q=%22sea+salt%22+iodine+OR+ordinary+OR+regular+OR+table&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A9\n.
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All you need to know about the iodine test:
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Snails are mollusks; that puts them in the same phylum as clams, oysters and cuttlefish.
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There is no "artificial" salt, only refined (cleaned) salt.\n\nSea salt contains other ions - mainly potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulphate and carbonate. It may also contain some remnant water (at least there is a special salt the French produce in the Mediterranean which does).\n\nMineral salt from mines is comparably pure.\n\nSome varieties of table salt get iodide additions to make up for natural deficits of iodine in inland regions.
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I did't know this ratio was something to look out for. However, iodine is used in the thyroid, and iodine defiency produces a goitter, which is a swelling of the thyroid. The fedral government, to make sure that everybody got thier required iodine, started making salt be iodized. So while I don't know about the ratio, at least you know why iodine is in food.
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I think that a defit of iodid can make thyroid resistance.
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iodized salt or baking soda
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1. Sodium will combine with Iodine, but Iodine never has a -3 charge. That would involving adding electrons to the 6st orbital, which would be considerably less stable than adding 1 electron to fill the 5p orbitals.\n\nSodium also doesn't form a +2 charge.\n\nBased on your data, it would be:\n\n3Na^+2 + 2I^-3 = Na3I2 \n\nI think it's:\n\nNa+ + I- ---> NaI or 2Na + I2 (solid) ---> 2NaI \n\nionic\n\n\n2. Protons will activately react with hydride donors to give hydrogen gas. That's why Lithium aluminium hydride is so reactive to water ... it considers the water's hydrogen atoms as a source for protons.\n\nH+ + H-1 ---> H2   covalent and non-polar.\n\n3.\nC^+4 + 20^-2 ---> CO2\n\nCovalent and non-polar
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They can contain unsafe high levels of iodine.\n\nAnd aren't they bloody expensive???
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that dingoling is thinking about iodine being put on leaches.......not hookworms