Re: the good news (water and salt too!)
That is an interesting map. For starters it depicts an area of affliction far beyod just "great lakes region". Maybe the GLR was Goiter HQ in a matter of speaking? Map also depicts a wide area who's drinking water is historically supplemented by rains that (in the west) comes usually from the Pacific, but in the mid-west and north east comes invariably from the Pacific, Canada, the northern Atlantic, and, at least in the northeast during varoius bouts from spring, summer to late fall, from the Gulf and southern atlantic. Just right here in Central Penn, it has long been theorized that our drinking water is in part comprised of deep, underground, aquafirs that travel from as far away as the great lakes. This theory has been spread around this area for years, and almost always includes the qualifier "well, we have thus far been unable to thoroughly identify, corroborate and thusly prove beyond doubt that these aquafers exist as the theory states, but that's the theory, and we're sticking to it for now".
The notes on the map state that this area of affliction was found to have little
Iodine in the drinking water. It seems logical to ask, when and how did this area stop having sufficient
Iodine in it's drinking water? It does not seem logical to assume this has always been a "natural" situation, otherwise the goiter belt would likely have been observed and documented as being the goiter belt long before the early-mid 1900s.....such as prior to the industrial revolution and all the peoples and generations that lived & existed in this belt way back in history. Who knows? Perhaps the goiter belt was in part an earlier manifestation of what has recently become the spur-of-the-moment hyped scare of warming theory?