Report on Iodine Deficiency

Reporting on a major success in preventing children from being born with one form of mental deficiency UNICEF has just released a report of international efforts to ensure that all salt, worldwide, is iodized. Similarly flour has had folic acid added to it while early detection of PKU allows nutritional intervention to prevent mental deficiency in children. We do not tell enough about our successes in nutritional intervention, but the media focus in supposed benefits (usually spurious) of over the counter nutritional supplements