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.
Generally, iodized salt contains 0.002% to 0.004% iodine, supplied either as potassium iodide or potassium iodate. In the U.S., iodine is added as potassium iodide in table salt at slightly higher levels (0.006% to 0.01% potassium iodide, equivalent to 0.0046% to 0.0077% iodine. Potassium iodide is one of two sources of iodine permissible by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.