Dear Mayo Clinic: I rarely use table salt anymore when cooking. Instead, I like to use sea salt. But I’ve noticed that a lot of sea salts don’t contain iodine. Do I need iodized salt, or are there ...

You might be surprised to find a type of sugar listed on your salt container. There's a surprising reason why dextrose is ...

Reducing table salt can have some health benefits, but, cutting iodized salt can mean shorting yourself on an important nutrient - iodine. Our bodies are unable to make this mineral, yet it’s key for ...

Salt has played a crucial role in human life, to the extent that even the finest foods lose their nutritional value when salt ...

In the early 20th century, iodine deficiency was ravaging much of the northern United States. The region was widely known as the “goiter belt,” for the goiters - heavily swollen thyroid glands - that ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Reducing table salt can have some health benefits, but, cutting iodized salt can mean shorting yourself on an important nutrient —Iodine. Our bodies are unable to make this mineral, ...

Simple goiter (enlargement of the thyroid gland) is one of the few diseases which might be conquered by Act of Congress. Prevalent in a wide “goiter belt” running from western New York through the ...

Reducing table salt can have some health benefits, but, cutting iodized salt can mean shorting yourself on an important nutrient - iodine. Our bodies are unable to make this mineral, yet it's key for ...

Reducing table salt can have some health benefits but cutting iodized salt intake can mean shorting yourself on an important nutrient: Iodine. Our bodies are unable to make this mineral, yet it’s key ...