US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt 270
cold fjord writes "I wish it was always this easy. Business Insider reports, 'Iodized salt is so ubiquitous that we barely notice it. Few people know why it even exists. Iodine deficiency remains the world's leading cause of preventable mental retardation. According to a new study (abstract), its introduction in America in 1924 had an effect so profound that it raised the country's IQ. A new NBER working paper from James Feyrer, Dimitra Politi, and David N. Weil finds that the population in iodine-deficient areas saw IQs rise by a full standard deviation, which is 15 points, after iodized salt was introduced.... The mental impacts were unknown, the program was started to fight goiter, so these effects were an extremely fortunate, unintended side effect.'"
Re:The question you are all asking... (Score:5, Funny)
I wasn't asking it as I've been taking my iodized salt.
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Re:But now people in the US try to avoid it (Score:4, Funny)
You haven't been taking your iodine, have you?
Re:The question you are all asking... (Score:4, Funny)
Lies.
Sincerely,
Master Control Program
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The evidence really is overwhelming. I dare you to read just the first article here. It is published in a very prestigious journal. Educate yourself please. We are trying to help you. The industries and corporations which have captured america's government do not love you. The toothpaste is a lie. Colgate will not make you sexy. See the brainwashing for what it really is, breakout of the master-slave paradigm.
Chemico-Biological Interactions 188 (2010) 319–333
Molecular mechanisms of fluoride toxicity
Unfortunately this copy is missing colour and some excellent diagrams. Google for a better copy.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iYgtU-HidMIJ:www.researchgate.net/publication/45281342_Molecular_mechanisms_of_fluoride_toxicity/file/79e415101a1cc46320.pdf+Chemico-Biological+Interactions+188+(2010)+319%E2%80%93333+Molecular+mechanisms+of+fluoride+toxicity&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834c187e
Association of vascular fluoride uptake with vascular
calcification and coronary artery disease
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ghbGfaMZNBMJ:intraspec.ca/Association_of_vascular_fluoride_uptake_with.3.pdf+DOI:+10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834c187e+Association+of+vascular+fluoride+uptake+with+vascular+calcification+and+coronary+artery+disease&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk
Crit Rev Oral Biol Med
14(2):100-114 (2003)
THE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY
OF METALLIC FLUORIDE: ACTION,
MECHANISM, AND IMPLICATIONS
Liang Li
cro.sagepub.com/content/14/2/100.full.pdf
REVERSAL OF CLINICAL
AND DENTAL FLUOROSIS
Gupta ET AL.
INDIAN PEDIATRICS
Vol 31- APRIL 1994
Re: The question you are all asking... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hey, an iodized salt thread (Score:5, Funny)
For movie watching a high IQ only gets in the way.
Re:The question you are all asking... (Score:5, Funny)