City gets better on iodine front
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SHANGHAI citizens have improved their iodine status over the past two decades — it was announced yesterday, the 24th national anti-iodine deficiency disorders day.
According to a report by Shanghai Disease Control and Prevention Center, however, pregnant women should pay more attention to their iodine nutrition level.
Iodine deficiency disorders are a preventable mental defect caused by a lack of the trace element iodine, an essential nutrient in the diet.
Shanghai is among the areas where there has been deficient iodine in the diet, according to the center.
Shanghai has been resolving iodine deficiency by providing citizens with iodized salt since 1996 — whereby small amounts of iodine is added to table salt.
Half of Shanghai people’s iodine nutrition supply came from iodized salt. Food like seaweed and laver account for between 7.6 and 16.6 percent, and animal seafood contributed 4.5 to 7.4 percent.
The center said pregnant women should pay close attention to their iodine nutrition level, as the fetus period was crucial to children’s brain development.
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