Re: Re:Help with cancer statistics please

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Thing is, the local iodine amount means ZILCH as far as howmuch iodine people get. For instance, in the US, many peoplelive on the coasts. But they eat their produce mainly from Mexicoor Arizona or inland California. Where I live, we get most of ours

from inland ... where it is warm and dry. NO ONE eats seaweedfrom our coast, except a few people who maybe live there orget it mailorder. There is in fact a lot of great seaweed that growsthere, but the coast is rather nasty in winter and most people

don't live there year round.Now, in Japan, they were, until very recently, catching fishand eating seaweed off the Japanese coast. But in Indonesia,which is an island so you'd expect they'd be ok, they were

having goiter problems (probably because they eat moreimported food).Anyway, what I'm trying to say is: MOST food these days,for MOST people, is imported, maybe from across the globe.Some trends do matter: if people eat seaweed, it most likely

has iodine. But cabbage? Who knows? Depends where it was grown, how it was grown.-- On Dec 15, 2007 10:23 AM, Karima Pijanka <

karirom@...> wrote:

I thought that the west coast of the US and Canada are high BC areas? Can't

find the reference right now. They show up as low iodine on the maps as well.

Karima

Can someone point me to a CDC statistic showing that breast cancer and

thyroid disease are less frequent along coastal areas?

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