RE: Are nukes making you fat?

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

I thought that post wasn't worth responding to, but in response to Glenn Marshall's question:



My father, Walter Fleischmann, was a pediatric endocrinologist who, with Lawson Wilkins at Johns Hopkins, was among the first to use synthetic thyroid hormone as a treatment for hypothyroidism and cretinism, as well as one of the first to use radioiodine diagnostically.  He wrote a book on the physiology of the mammalian thyroid.  He and Wilkins saw a good many patients with goiter and other evidence of hypothyroidism -- usually people who lived inland, not near marine waters, and whose diet therefore lacked sufficient iodine (in the early part of the 20th century, fresh marine fish and seafood were not readily available inland).  He advised using iodized salt, particularly if you don't live near a marine environment where fish and seafood are readily avalable, or if you don't eat a lot of fish.  I have followed this advice and followed it with my children, and we all have normal thyroid function.   



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Ruth F. Weiner

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