Bread and some other foods also were fortified with iodine, and iodine deficiency became rare. But diets changed. Processed ...

On the flip side, too much iodine can also lead to an overactive thyroid, or hyperthyroidism, as well as being linked to thyroid inflammation and certain types of thyroid cancer. Though rare ...

Changing diets and reliance on processed foods may threaten essential iodine levels for the current generation.

Bread and other foods were also fortified with iodine, and iodine deficiency became rare. But diets changed. Processed foods now comprise a large part of the American diet, and though they contain ...

Image Credit: Rufiyana Nikitushkina / Shutterstock In a recent study published in The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, researchers investigated whether urinary iodine concentrations (UIC ...