Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — Sea Fish Oppose Goiter. [ARTICLE]

Sea Fish Oppose Goiter.

Sea fish of all kinds has been found to oppose goiter in communities where goiter prevails extensively. Authorities have attributed the remarkable prevalence of goiter and cretinism or myxoedema (physical defect due to failure of normal thyroid gland function) in Switzerland to the scarcity of sea food in that inland country. And there is some ground for the Idea that a more frequent use of sea fish in the diet tends to prevent or cure simple goiter,, which is rather excessively prevalent in the great lakes basin. Sea fish contains iodine in assimilable form, and it is to this element that the food’s value in cases of goiter is ascribed.