Researchers urge awareness of dietary iodine intake in postpartum Korean-American women

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have brought attention to the potential health impacts for Korean and Korean-American women and their infants from consuming brown seaweed soup. Seaweed is a known source of dietary iodine, particularly in Korea; however, there is no scientific data on the iodine content in Korean seaweed soup.

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