How Switzerland cured endemic goiter

Switzerland's problem with goiter–swelling of the thyroid, associated with various other symptoms–was as outsize as everyone's necks. The debate over what caused it and how to deal with the consequences was itself an institutionalized feature of the country's medical establishment, so when country doctors began figuring it out–it was caused by iodine deficiency–it was only the beginning of solving the problem of getting the stuff into people's bodies. — Read the rest

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