We will all be cured soon, from 2018 all the salt will be iodized

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Currently, in Russia, a huge number of officials, doctors and public figures are involved in the process of administrative pressure (popularization) of the use of iodized salt.

As a result of various large-scale advertising campaigns, many people in our country sincerely believe that iodized salt is "the cheapest and most effective way to prevent iodine deficiency diseases" and are not even aware of the possible consequences of constant use of iodized salt associated with iodine overdose.

The daily requirement for iodine is: in children under 5 years of age - 90 mcg of iodine per day; in children from 5 to 12 years old - 120 mcg per day; in children over 12 years of age and adults - 150 mcg per day; in pregnant women - 220 mcg per day; in lactating women - 290 mcg per day.

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has developed a bill according to which all finely ground salt in the country will be iodized in order to reduce the number of thyroid diseases in the country.

The agency proposes to make the use of iodized salt mandatory in children's, medical and sports facilities. Salt "Extra" and zero grinding will be subject to mandatory iodization. An exception would be coarse salt, which does not pass through the salt shaker.

The bill is at the stage of interdepartmental coordination.

According to the Endocrinological Research Center of the Ministry of Health of Russia, due to iodine deficiency in Russia, more than 1.5 million adults and 650 thousand children with thyroid diseases are in need of specialized endocrinological care every year, the Russian Ministry of Health said.

Now the bill says that potassium iodate should be fortified:

- edible salt intended for retail sale (extra, higher and first grades, grinds No. 0 and No. 1);

- salt that is used in the manufacture of bakery products;

- salt, which is used for cooking in kindergartens, schools, hospitals and sports organizations.

Rospotrebnadzor plans to develop a bill obliging manufacturers to enrich food with iodine, calcium, iron, vitamins and other microelements. The list of microelements, which will have to enrich the products, is currently being compiled.

The initiative to develop such a bill followed on the basis of the department's action plan as part of the Strategy for improving the quality of food products until 2030. According to the document, in 2018 the preparation of bills on the prevention of iodine deficiency disease will begin. A source

About the history of the issue

In 1990, a summit meeting of leaders of several developed countries took place in New York, which adopted the so-called Action Plan for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The countries that signed the document pledged to improve the nutrition and health of children and eliminate diseases associated with iodine deficiency by the end of 2000. Among these countries was Russia. At the same time, it was said about the universal iodization of table salt. It was decided that this is the best and most suitable option for all countries to combat iodine deficiency, regardless of their geographical location of the economy or population. The promotion of iodized salt was personally handled by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. All activities for the introduction of salt are carried out under the auspices of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) The process of salting people with iodized salt has covered a huge part of the world.

“According to UNICEF, for 2003, more than 70 countries of the world have laws and regulations on the mandatory iodization of salt, and in 30 countries such standards are at the stage of development and adoption. As a result, over the past decade, the number of people consuming iodized salt has sharply increased - from 10% of the world's population in 1990 to 72% in 2000. According to the decision of the Special Session of the UN General Assembly dedicated to children (May 2002), the problem of eliminating IDD should be resolved on a global scale by the end of 2005”.

All these joys about the health of children look, at first glance, good-looking. However, only at first glance.

It turns out that the mandatory, forced iodization of all table salt does not apply to the countries of the "Golden Billion" - the USA and Western Europe, but only to the "developing" and Eastern Europe.

Why? Because "according to UNICEF, the lowest rates of iodized salt consumption are observed in Eastern Europe and in such states as Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia." Laws on compulsory salt iodization were actively lobbied here, and practically everywhere these laws have been adopted. Somewhere, however, consideration is still underway, but the outcome is already clear in advance.

In addition, in the countries of Western democracies the amount of iodine in iodized salt is 23 mg / kg, in Denmark in general 8-12 mg / kg, at a symposium in the USA in 1996 standards were adopted that stipulate that iodine per kilogram of salt should account for 12. 5 milligrams. And for us and other inferior countries, WHO for some reason set 40 +/- 15 mgq per kg of product. Such is the overdose! And this despite the fact that the usual table salt most likely will not be.

Of course, the therapeutic potential of iodine deserves widespread popularization. This potential extends far beyond our knowledge that iodine is the main building block for thyroid hormones.

However, the effects of salt iodization are not as favorable as they seem at first glance. Interestingly, despite the widespread use of iodized salt, endemic goiter and hypothyroidism remain a serious problem for about seven percent of the world's population.

Consider this example

The English doctor Sir Robert McCarrison described a mysterious phenomenon among the inhabitants of nine villages in the Hunza Himalayan Valley. The living conditions of the inhabitants of the villages, cascading along the mountain river, practically did not differ in terms of such criteria as climate, soil (and the content of iodine in it) and water.

Nevertheless, the inhabitants of the village, located at the highest point, did not suffer from hypothyroidism and were famous for excellent health and longevity. In contrast, the inhabitants of the lowest village had a high incidence of endemic goiter, other forms of hypothyroidism, and accompanying health problems.

It is not hard to guess that the reason for this phenomenon was a common water source. Water was used for drinking, bathing, washing clothes, washing dishes, watering plants and dumping its excess after the harvest ripened. Accordingly, the highest-located village had the purest water at its disposal. And each downstream village received less pure water. A source

DISEASES OF THE THYROID PRODUCT NOT ONLY LACK OF IODINE, BUT ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS

The association of goiter with water pollution in wells as a cause of hypothyroidism has been described in areas close to mines, industrial plants, landfills and inorganic farmland (Eduardo Gaitan). Paradoxically, the high prevalence of goiter in these regions was registered despite the absence of iodine deficiency. Also, one of the common causes of thyroid problems is poor ecology.

EXCESS IODINE IS NOT LESS DANGEROUS THAN ITS LACK.

Complete replacement of simple salt with iodized salt will lead, at the accepted doses of 40 mg / kg, to a massive overdose of iodine, up to the development of iodism, especially when using iodates. The daily dose of iodine is only 0.025 mg of potassium iodate; in reality, iodized salt contains 16 times more than necessary in a daily dose, this is close to the maximum daily dose, the regular excess of which is fraught with complications. That is why competent endocrinologists recommend that practically healthy people use iodized salt for no more than 6 months a year, and even then not in all regions. Iodization of all foodstuffs will lead to an epidemic incidence of iodism, unless the iodine dosage is reduced to normal levels.

The promotion of iodized products is in full swing. Advertising on television "about the benefits of iodized products", newspaper articles, on the Internet all sites "shout" that iodized salt is a panacea for thyroid diseases, etc. All refer to the fact that with a lack of iodine in the body, the metabolism is disturbed, the functions of the thyroid gland are disrupted, the risk of atherosclerosis and obesity increases, immunity is weakened, the risk of complications of pregnancy and childbirth increases, and the condition of the skin, nails and hair worsens. The main emphasis is on the statement that with a lack of iodine in children, there may be a decrease in mental abilities and even, in extreme cases, cretinism may develop. And indeed it is.

Only for some reason they forget to say that with an excess of iodine in the body, a condition can occur, which is called iodism. The most characteristic manifestations of iodism are pustular skin rashes, edema, nausea, vomiting, bronchitis, runny nose, conjunctivitis, fever, joint pain, etc.

An excess of iodine has a toxic, that is, a poisonous effect on the body. In addition, so-called iodine-induced thyrotoxicosis (IIT) may occur. The development of IIT occurs mainly in older people with thyroid disorders such as endemic or non-endemic (sporadic) goiter, Graves' disease, or an autonomic thyroid nodule. With the use of iodized products, iodine-containing drugs, they developed IIT, which can be determined by symptoms such as arrhythmia, heart failure, weakness, depression.

According to medical warnings for the following diseases, iodine should be consumed with extreme caution, and sometimes it should not be at all: thyroid gland hyperfunction; nodular toxic and diffuse toxic goiter, urticaria, tachycardia, hypersensitivity to iodine, nephritis, hemorrhagic diathesis, benign thyroid nodules, autoimmune lesions, malignant tumors of the thyroid gland, kidney disease, hypertension, disorders of water-salt metabolism and some more.

In addition, there is the problem of hyperthyroidism. This disease occurs due to excessive production of thyroid hormones, it can appear with inflammatory or tumor lesions of the thyroid gland, after operations, administration of radioactive iodine, etc. Symptoms of hyperthyroidism include tachycardia, hypertension, poor heat tolerance, weight loss with good appetite, diarrhea, and baldness. R. Roziev noted that in countries where universal salt iodization is legalized, the number of patients with hyperthyroidism is significantly higher than in countries where there is no such law ("Uchitelskaya Gazeta". No. 19. 2004). R. Roziev noted that in those countries where mass iodization of salt was introduced, the population especially suffered from diseases of the thyroid gland. ("Uchitelskaya Gazeta" # 19.2004). Even a supporter of universal salt iodization, Academician T. Sh. Shermanov agreed that the effect of iodine on the human body is sometimes harmful: "Indeed, excessive intake of iodine can lead to an increase in the incidence of thyroiditis and toxic goiter."

In the regions of widespread use of iodized salt, the incidence of hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism of a non-autoimmune nature (the Wolff-Chaikoff effect is a protective mechanism against the development of hyperthyroidism) and especially autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease) increased. Interestingly, in the United States, Hashimoto's disease was unknown before the widespread introduction of iodized salt.

Researchers from Iran have registered a fourfold increase in the incidence of Hashimoto's disease in just six years (!) After the start of the massive salt iodization. Similar studies have come from other countries. We have no right to dismiss these scientific facts, since IN MORE THAN 90% OF CASES HYPOTHYROIDISIS IS AN AUTOIMMUNE NATURE.

If all the salt is iodized, then what about those who have endocrine system disorders?

The government could easily have avoided complaints and protests if it had not insisted on a universal and mandatory procedure for fortifying food with iron and iodine (what is next?), But would have provided an opportunity for the consumer (and the patient) to decide for himself what to eat and how to be treated. To do this, it was only necessary to introduce a quota for manufacturers for the mandatory production of products "enriched" with additives, and the presence of additives in the product must be indicated on the packaging. (After all, they indicate a barcode on the packages?). However, the government does not want to do this.

Thus, the citizens of the Russian Federation are deprived of the right to choose when buying essential goods - salt and bread - and are forced to violent "treatment", which can cause serious health problems for a significant part of the population. All this is happening with the persistent interference of international supranational structures, the main purpose of which is "population planning" on a global scale.

Just think, if all the salt is iodized, then it will be used in the industrial production of food, and in home cooking, and when adding salt to ready-made dishes, and in canning. How much iodine we will eat in the end, no one knows and, apparently, will never know. Most likely a lot. How can this turn out not only for the sick, but also for healthy people?

It is also obvious that universal salt iodization is a very big business for human health:

• Supply of imported equipment for salt iodization to ALL salt industry enterprises
• Constant supply of chemical reagent
• Continuous disposal (after 6-12 months) of all salt, based on the fact that the shelf life of iodized salt ranges from 6 to 12 months, depending on the inorganic compound used (iodate or potassium iodide).
• Growth in imports of "iodized salt" (it may "accidentally" find out in the near future that the quality of domestic iodized salt does not meet international standards, or the cost of rent and electricity for the production of iodized salt is so high that it is better to buy imported iodized salt.)

Advertising and explanatory work among the population about the benefits of using iodized salt can be carried out at the expense of budget funds.

And yet, where is the guarantee that iodine will be added in the package with the inscription iodized salt, and not iodine and plus other chemicals. elements?