Massive Rise In Thyroid Cancer Cases.

Recent figures released in Australia indicate that the biggest mover in cancer today is thyroid cancer that has shown more than 42% rise in male cases and over 82% rise in females diagnosed.

The figures are of concern, naturally, but what is of even more concern is that thyroid cancer is caused by a lack of iodine in our diet. A couple of years ago I wrote an article about how declining iodine in our diet is causing shortened attention spans and reducing our reasoning ability; so maybe I should recap the "iodine" situation once more because we of the twenty-first century are certainly not as bright as we like to kid ourselves.

The human body requires extremely small amounts of iodine and for many years our iodine intake was taken care of by milk. Or rather milk containers: All milk containers used to be sterilized in an iodine solution before being filled with milk and the minute residual amount of iodine that remained in the container and mixed with the milk was sufficient for the needs of our bodies.

In the late 1980's the industry worldwide changed from iodine sterilization to chlorine sterilization and inhabitants of the developed world were robbed of their supply of this crucial element.

What has this to do with thyroid cancer?

Sufficient iodine in our diet acts as a natural antidote to thyroid cancer and this lack of iodine for almost 20 years is now showing in dramatic increases in diagnosed thyroid cancer.

When writing articles it has always been my aim to present answers rather than simply pose questions and the obvious answers required to stem this problem is where can I find iodine and how much do I need?

Iodine can be found in iodized (sometimes labelled iodonized) salt and should be available on the shelf of your supermarket alongside all of the other salts that they sell. The dosage needed by the average body is probably no more than a couple of pinches of salt twice each week. It can be added to cooking just as ordinary salt is. There is no need to pour it over cooked food.

Why this has happened is easy to see when you look at how many doctors and nutritionists have been urging everybody to cut back on salt because of other health concerns. I am not attempting to disagree with their findings, we should be careful of sodium intake for the sake of our hearts - but, for heavens sake, there is no point in having a strong heart only to go down with thyroid cancer. Let's get a little balance into the debate. We're talking about four pinches of salt per week between the family.

Iodized salt contains iodine, the price is the same as for ordinary salt.

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