The case for iodized salt
Andrew Ellsworth, MD Imagine how just over one hundred years ago, nearly one-third of people in the upper Great Lakes and upper midwest regions walked around with a goiter on their neck. A goiter is a lump on the throat, which could be as big as an orange, a grapefruit, or larger. Actually an enlargement of the thyroid gland, a goiter can come from an overact...