Trendy diets and veganism could lead to birth defects Pregnant women on diets lacking iodine and vegans are putting their unborn children at risk of birth defects, experts warn.
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Subscriber only Trendy diets and veganism are putting pregnant women at risk of giving birth to children with neurological defects, experts warn. A University of South Australia study found women in a trial had disturbingly low levels of iodine, essential for foetal intellectual development. In the 1960s, a former chancellor at the university, Basil Hetzel, made the link between low iodine and birth defects, leading to an international push to put iodine in products such as salt.
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