Marginal micronutrients:: Iodine insufficiency in subcontinental diets—cultural, biological, and humanitarian implications

Without an adequate intake of the stable iodine isotope, the human thyroid gland and other tissues in the body would have high avidity for the uptake of carcinogenic radioactive iodine isotopes produced from nuclear fuel or explosion byproducts.4 Regretfully, for the dangerous world we live in durin...

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Published in:Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Los Angeles County, Calif.), 2004-03, Vol.20 (3), p.334-335
Main Author: Geelhoed, Glenn W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Carcinogens
Diet
Diet - standards
Diet - statistics & numerical data
Food chains
Goiter, Endemic - epidemiology
Humans
Hypothyroidism
Iodine - administration & dosage
Iodine - deficiency
Iodine radioisotopes
Micronutrients
Nuclear fuels
Nutrition
Nutritional Requirements
Pakistan - epidemiology
Public Health
Thyroid
Thyroid gland
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Summary:Without an adequate intake of the stable iodine isotope, the human thyroid gland and other tissues in the body would have high avidity for the uptake of carcinogenic radioactive iodine isotopes produced from nuclear fuel or explosion byproducts.4 Regretfully, for the dangerous world we live in during an era of nuclear capabilities and the threat of their use against whole populations, this strategic examination of the Pakistani diet might be motivated more by an intent to ameliorate such inhumane threats than by the humanitarian urge to enhance human development potential.
ISSN:0899-9007
1873-1244
DOI:10.1016/j.nut.2003.11.014