Talk:History of iodised salt

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Contents 1 Priority 2 Simple English 3 Spelling 4 How many people eat salt? 5 "History"? 6 Actual levels of iodine/iodide in iodized salt 7 Iodine and protection from nuclear fallout

[edit] Priority

Since Iodised salt can be very important for good health, let us make it as easy as possible to find this information.

This page should be a priority for different languages.

A film on National Geographic cable TV channel about the people living along the Pakistan-China Highway, show one entrepeneur unloading rock salt. This mountainous area quite possibly has low Iodine concentrations in the diet. The rock salt probably is not iodised.

Syd1435 10:19, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)

[edit] Simple English

A simple english version of this page is also needed.

Syd1435 02:58, 2004 Dec 5 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

As the rest of wikipedia seems to use U.S. and not British spellings (e.g; color) this entry should be dubbed 'Iodized salt'. --Belg4mit 19:10, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

The Manual of Style guidelines state "Follow the dialect of the first contributor" which in this case seems to be British English. I changed the article to reflect this and match the title. --dm ^(talk) 07:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How many people eat salt?

How many people eat table salt? Isn't there something else iodine can be added to that reaches more people? Isn't there a risk that people will overdose on salt when they are told by their doctors to eat iodised salt? Presumably it's supposed to be an instruction to 'eat this instead of your normal salt' rather than 'eat this substance because it's good for you', but I really do not get the point of bringing salt in at all. Why not just distribute iodine supplements? Njál 17:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "History"?

Why was this article moved from iodised salt to History of iodised salt? I really really wish people would discuss page moves on the talk pages before making them. This article is about iodised salt, including, though not limited to, its history. 70.20.228.140 (talk) 02:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I just thought the same thing. Anyone? If there are no objections, I'll move back the article. -- Ynhockey ^(Talk) 18:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Actual levels of iodine/iodide in iodized salt

The actual levels of iodine/iodide in iodized salt are needed in this article, as contrasted with those of sea salt. Badagnani (talk) 20:02, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Iodine and protection from nuclear fallout

I've heard that, like potassium iodide that one of the reasons iodine has persisted as an additive in salt is as a protection from nuclear fallout and complimentary to civil defense initiatives. Any citations for this?