Iodine Deficiency Causes Mental Retardation

Thousands of children will be threatened with impaired mental retardation or "idiot" due to lack of iodine salt. Iodine salt deficiency was found to also affect a child's mental retardation can result in a comment. Even the most, at this time in the community are still many outstanding salt contains no iodine, not the least of people who also buy salt without iodine in salt content.

Some experts said the lack of iodine salt is dangerous because it can give birth a generation that is not qualified and not productive. Salt iodine deficiency can lead to generation of idiots or mental retardation, short body, dumb, deaf or paralyzed.

In addition, when low dietary intake of iodine will be children who lack the intelligence or the intelligence, stupid, lethargic and apathetic in his life. Therefore, iodine deficiency also causes of the poor and underdeveloped and children have difficulty learning.

It prompted the government should immediately make rules about iodized salt to save the next generation. Policy is used to curb the circulation of salt with no iodine circulating in various regions.

During this time, many discovered the circulation of salt contains no iodine. With the existence of local regulations that would have a legal basis to order, even an unequivocal action against perpetrators of circulation-salt not containing iodine.
 
Based on the data, the number of children aged under five years of more than 5 million and will worry about their salt iodine deficiency. There are more than 200 existing and new toddler found a mentally retarded child or an idiot due to iodine deficiency and good nutrition.