"Almost half of Pakistan’s 200 million people suffer from health disorders owing to Iodine deficiency, according to the 2012 National Nutritional Survey conducted by UNICEF, the national health ministry, and academics.

A myth about Iodine causing infertility has gripped the nation for almost two decades and Pakistan is witness to increasing incidences of goiter, mental retardation, birth-defects, still-births, and spontaneous abortions."
http://borgenproject.org/fear-of-iodine-in-pakistan-leads-to-serious-health-c...


"SCOTTISH women are risking the mental development of future generations by failing to ensure a vital chemical is included in their diet, researchers have warned.

Scientists examined 700 schoolgirls across Britain and found more than two-thirds were deficient in iodine."
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/fear-over-iodine-deficiency.1327...


"Dr. Bruce West’s Health Alert of February 2006 reported that breasts are the second main glandular storage site for Iodine after the thyroid gland and that the relationship between breast health and iodine has been known for more than 100 years. Fibrocystic breast disease is the most significant breast symptom of iodine deficiency. He claimed that it was not unusual for women, desperate with this condition, to wind up with no breast pain after 3 weeks of taking 50 mgs of iodine daily.

Iodine deficiency disorders affect a great many people in this country. They range from the really serious, like Cretinism, through goiters to fatigue, depression, joint pain, cold intolerance, muscle aches and mental impairment."

"Dr. Miller also suggested that the bone structure of modern day Cretins is so similar to that of Neanderthals that there is a very good chance that Neanderthals were not a separate species. They may have been simply iodine deficient Homo sapiens."
http://www.rush2013.com/magazine/read/iodine-deficiency-and-health_28.html


"The Wolff Chaikoff Effect, combined with medical stupidity may have caused more human misery and death than both world wars combined by preventing meaningful clinical investigations of optimal levels of iodine on physical and mental health. Today, the optimal requirement of iodine for whole body sufficiency is still unknown."
http://www.survivediabetes.com/Essay/Iodine.htm