From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 15:04:47 MST
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 02:04 PM, Amara Graps wrote:
> check your Iodine.
>
> I had thought that iodine deficiency was mostly a thing of a past,
> I also learned that water
> supplies in this country have iodine added to fight this deficiency.
>
Nutrient deficiencies are more common than people think. The US
government has instituted the following public health policies to
address widespread deficiencies in the "typical" American diet:
- butter provides additional vitamin A supplementation
- milk provides additional vitamin D supplementation
- water provides additional fluoride supplementation
- salt provides additional iodine supplementation
- cereal provides additional vitamin B complex supplementation
- baby formula provides additional neonatal vitamin supplementation
- doctors monitor women for calcium and vitamin B-12 supplementation
*Shameless self-promotion follows!* This is what lead me to write my
book _Nutrients_Catalog_. I wanted to document the deficiency symptoms
for every known human nutrient, so I would know which ones to
supplement. I also took care to document toxicity symptoms and
side-effects of each, so I would know if I was taking too much. I think
that human nutrition should be tuned and tweaked, just like we do with
our computers and our automobiles.
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