Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland
by evanjrowley on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @12:47PM
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It may not be a question of the initiative itself, rather, what conditions in Switzerland at the time led to an uptick in iodine deficiencies.
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Re:A National Evil – the curse of the goitre in Switzerland
by masklinn on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:43PM
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There was no uptick, CIDS was endemic to the alps as far back as roman times. Its consequences literally slipped into linguistic vernaculars (e.g. french as the insult "crétin des alpes", lit. "cretin from the alps", and "cretin" was the original term for CIDS-induced mental impairment).