How the arrival of iodized salt 100 years ago changed America

In the early 20th century, iodine deficiency was ravaging much of the northern United States. The region was widely known as the "goiter belt," for the goiters -- heavily swollen thyroid glands -- that bulged from many residents' necks.

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