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Re: Back to the 50's

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On 28/10/2015 17:09, MI wrote:
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> On 10/28/15, 12:11 AM, in article d9baomFghfkU1@mid.individual.net,
> "polygonum" <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:
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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
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
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> I agree sort of. It doesn't HAVE to be, but it CAN be. When they discovered
> my goitre, they immediately checked for cancer. I was relieved when
> everything checked out. Just a couple of cysts.
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My point was not that all thyroid swelling isn't cancer. More that the 
thyroid swelling caused by low iodine as in "the goiter belt" isn't 
cancer. And taking iodine supplements to ensure sensible levels isn't a 
cancer cure.

Very glad that yours were "just" cysts - though surely unpleasant enough.

-- 
Rod

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