Therefore, dehydration and lack of food greatly impact your body's ability to function properly. Even a temporary lack of food and water can affect your health, and ongoing deprivation is life threatening.
Iodized salt is a form of table salt which has had iodine added to it to prevent a disease called goiter.â. Goiter is characterized by the swelling of the thyroid gland due to iodine deficiency. Iodine is a nutrient that usually occurs naturally in vegetables, which absorb it from the soil in which they grow.
Iodized table salt was the solution offered in the early 20th century for epidemic iodine deficiency resulting in disfiguring goiters, or thyroid gland enlargement. Now that excessive salt use is discouraged by the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, and other agencies, iodine deficiency is staging a comeback.