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Re: Back to the 50's

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On 28/10/2015 03:42, MI wrote:
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> On 10/27/15, 4:46 PM, in article
> c6fab8ab-b499-4eae-b9bb-62f0ba8e8afc@googlegroups.com, "peg.dosen@gmail.com"
> <peg.dosen@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sunday, August 2, 1998 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, Wmaebe1 wrote:
>>> I just had a memory breakthrough.....I distinctly remember as a little girl
>>> in
>>> kindergarten( in the very late 50's) having to take little chocolate pills
>>> that
>>> the teachers called 'goiter pills'.  I remember kids trying to get back in
>>> line
>>> for seconds as they tasted very good!  Does anyone remember these pills?
>>> Could
>>> they have been used regionally?  I live in Wisconsin.  I wonder if they had
>>> any
>>> adverse affect on us?
>>> Wanda
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>> There wasn't much Iodine in the soil in the Great Lakes area.  These pills
>> were to protect people from getting thyroid cancer (also called the goiter).
>> I took them too!  Loved them!  Don't know of an adverse affect ... it was
>> before Iodine was in salt.
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> You've brought memories. I had forgotten all about them. I live in Canada
> and they were certainly given out at school. I remember the pills cost 10
> cents a year. My mother wouldn't let me take them and I have often wondered
> if the lack of iodine at a young age (They administered them to 6 to 12
> YO's) contributed to my thyroid deficiency.
>
A goitre (UK spelling) is most definitely not thyroid cancer.

-- 
Rod

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