How necessary is iodine for the human body: iodine-containing foods

Approximately 75-85% of the inhabitants of our country, including children, experience an acute shortage of iodine, but most do not even suspect it. Every year more than 800 children with mental retardation appear in Russia. According to WHO experts this is due to a shortage of iodine in the mother's body.

If a pregnant woman does not eat enough iodine-containing foods, this has a negative impact on the child. Iodine deficiency causes the greatest damage to the mental activity of the fetus, then it forms an irreversible violation: from a small deviation of IQ to a severe form of idiocy.

In adults and adolescents with iodine deficiency , the likelihood of thyroid disease increases. In Russia, this problem remains unresolved. The average IQ-index for Russian children is not more than 90 units, but in those countries where such problems are solved - IQ children more than 100 units. Therefore, elimination of iodine deficiency is the main task of many civilized countries.

The Russian food industry offers alternative solutions, for example, add manganese and iodine to bakery products, salt, beverages. Iodine in essential products will help to combat the shortage of this important chemical element for the body. Therefore, it is necessary to know in which products this element is present. You will receive the information from this article.

Before isolating the iodine-containing products, it is necessary to explain how much of the chemical element is required per day. For each age category has its own norm of iodine. A child up to a year needs about 50 mcg, children from two to six years old - 90 mcg daily. To teenagers not less than 120 mkg. To an adult from 150 mcg. But breastfeeding mothers and pregnant women need to consume about 200 micrograms per day, because Part of this important compound goes to the development of the fetus.

To solve the problem of a lack of a chemical element, you can use not ordinary salt for food, but iodized salt, but of course this is not a panacea, besides this, products rich in this compound are needed. Pay attention to drinking water, in one liter there is about 15 mcg of iodine. The greatest content of this connection, which is extremely important for humans, is in the gifts of the sea.

One of these products is sea kale, according to medics and nutritionists, it is not only rich in useful amino acids, but also with iodine. To fill the daily rate, you must eat this valuable product 200 gr. daily.

Iodine-containing products - fish: halibut, tuna, cod, salmon, flounder, herring, sea bass. In 100 g of marine raw fish contains 70 μg of a useful substance. Much more iodine in fish oil - 770 mcg. Even more in the cod baking - 800 mcg. It is enough to eat at least 180 gr. Cod to ensure that iodine in the body is in the Sufficient quantity.

The following delicacies: shrimps, crabs, scallops, mussels, oysters, squid not only have a pleasant taste, but also many useful trace elements. They contain approximately 100 μg of the compound. Quite a chemical element in tomatoes, eggplants, garlic, beef, eggs, mushrooms, asparagus, radish, spinach, cereals, milk, green onions. Also in some fruits and berries (grapes, bananas, melons, pineapples, strawberries, persimmons, lemons).

Signs of iodine deficiency

· Sharp weight gain

· Lethargy

· Fatigability

· Chronic weakness

· Mental retardation

· Frequent diseases of the respiratory tract

If you do not include iodine-containing foods in your diet, in addition to the above signs, irritability, memory loss , menstrual irregularity, impotence, malfunctions in the reproductive system (spontaneous abortions, stillbirth, infertility, abnormalities of the embryo) will be added.