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How the arrival of iodized salt 100 years ago changed America (wapo.st)
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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

My grandmother talked about iodine in salt sometimes. She also talked about classmates coming down with polio and mumps and such and then never coming to school again. She was always delighted by the progress made to food science.