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Iodized Table Salt Causes No Health Problems

Iodine is a mineral that we need as humans. It's found in some seafoods and in some dairy products, but it's not something that our bodies make on their own. We started adding iodine to table salt about 100 years ago because too many people had iodine deficiencies. In the event of a nuclear disaster, a nuclear blast, a dirty bomb or a conventional bomb is laced with radioactive material.

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