One of the earliest symptoms of iodine deficiency is goiter, which is the abnormal enlargement of your thyroid. You may be at a greater risk of iodine deficiency if you are pregnant, vegan ...

Iodine deficiency is a nutritional imbalance that happens when you don't have enough iodine in your diet. Iodine affects your ability to produce thyroid hormone, which can lead to a number of ...

By the 1940s, goiters had all but "vanished". Now, thanks to complacency, changing diets and a "lack of public-health education", iodine deficiency may be making a comeback in America. From our ...

A century ago, iodine deficiency affected kids across large swathes of the US. It essentially disappeared after some food makers started adding it to table salt, bread and other foods, in one of ...