A glut of cheap carbs & iodine deficiency

Yes it's technical but it's a quick read. And o-so-informative. Makes TOTAL sense. A lot of people LIVE on cheap carbohydrates...and these days it's highly processed cheap carbohydrates. Cheap on the wallet, yes, but pricey in terms of our health and the health of the planet as well....there's a huge "dead zone" in the gulf of Mississippi thanks to the runoff from the high-nitrogen fertilizers used on #2 feed corn in the midwest so that WE can have high-fructose corn syrup, fruity pebbles and a million zillion other binders, stabilizers and assorted weirdnesses to make what they call "food" last, not only last, but maintain impossible shapes and do impossible things...

In my neck of the woods, the various Indian tribes named themselves after their main food source, such as the "ground squirrel eaters" and the "pine nut eaters".

And Americans these days? We are the "hybridized genetically modified cheap corn and soybean eaters". Not much of a ring to it, huh?

ok, rant over:)



http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract...


Nutrition, evolution and thyroid hormone levels - a link to Iodine deficiency disorders?

Kopp W.

Diagnostikzentrum Graz, Mariatrosterstrasse 41, 8043 Graz, Austria. wk@dzg.at

"An increased Iodine requirement as a result of significant changes in human nutrition rather than a decreased environmental Iodine supply is suggested to represent the main cause of the iodine deficiency disorders (IDD). The pathomechanism proposed is based on the fact that serum concentrations of thyroid hormones, especially of trijodothyronine (T3), are dependent on the amount of dietary carbohydrate. High-carbohydrate diets are associated with significantly higher serum T3 concentrations, compared with very low-carbohydrate diets. While our Paleolithic ancestors subsisted on a very low carbohydrate/high protein diet, the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago brought about a significant increase in dietary carbohydrate. These nutritional changes have increased T3 levels significantly. Higher T3 levels are associated with an enhanced T3 production and an increased iodine requirement. The higher iodine requirement exceeds the availability of iodine from environmental sources in many regions of the world, resulting in the development of IDD."

from~ "beet, cabbage and carrot eater", yours truly, Wombat:)

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