Iodine in Diet
Alternate Names : Diet - Iodine
Iodine in Diet: Recommendations
These are the recommended daily allowances:
- infants -- 40 to 50 micrograms.
- children
- age 1 to 3 years -- 70 micrograms
- age 4 to 6 years -- 90 micrograms
- age 7 to 10 years -- 120 micrograms
- age 11+ years -- 150 micrograms
- pregnant women -- 175 micrograms
- lactating women -- 200 micrograms
A 1/4 teaspoon of iodized table salt provides 95 micrograms of iodine. A 6- ounce portion of ocean fish provides 650 micrograms of iodine. Most people are able to meet their iodine requirements by eating seafood, seaweed, iodized salt, and plants grown in iodine-rich soil. When buying salt make sure that is the iodized kind.
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