Is iodine deficiency rearing its ugly head again?

Fatigue? Muscle weakness? Weight gain? Dry skin? Kosher salt for cooking and no added table salt? That might be related--and the implications for kids are more worrisome.

Dry skin, weight gain, muscle weakness and fatigue can be related to dozens of issues, but one we don’t usually think a lot about is iodine deficiency. Those relatively innocuous symptoms in adults are one thing, but kids brains are far more fragile—the original reason iodine was added to table salt. Autism and other childhood diseases not seen in the r…