Americans ignorant of nutrient deficiency imperiling fetal brain development
The American public is unaware that expectant mothers are ingesting only about three-fourths of a key nutrient required for proper fetal brain development according to an NIH-funded public opinion poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporationa and publicized by The Solae Company .
And after reading this news report, Americans still won't know the crucial importance of adequate iodine nutrition for pregnant women and infants since the article is about choline. NIH has done nothing to publicize the need for improved iodine nutrition, but its sister agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tracked a decline in the iodine status of the American diet including a fourfold increase in pregnant women consuming less than the World Health Organization's minimum acceptable levels of iodine.
A major source of dietary iodine, of course, is in iodized salt.
