Most of history is people living nasty, brutish and short lives and modernity is a paradise by comparison, example 9,328:
Before the introduction in the 1920s of iodized salt, iodine deficiency was so widespread in the northeastern U.S. that it was known as the “goiter belt,” for the painfully enlarged thyroid glands that millions had as a result of this deficiency.
@mimsical@futurebird I had no idea it was endemic in the US but it was also a devastating condition in Switzerland (sorry if this is repetitive — I quit the Washington Post a few years ago and was not able to read the whole thing)
@mimsical I grew up in Indiana and still go out of my way to buy iodized salt even though I live in Southern California where it's much less of an issue.
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