Iodine

Iodine.

Have you got any iodine?

As universal salt iodization is the most cost effective way to ensure adequate iodine intake, the three countries would be well served to pass relevant legislation as soon as possible.

(vii) Iodine intake will be increased by making iodized salt easily available, at least in areas where iodine deficiency is endemic.

189. Iodine deficiency disorders.

It is also necessary to continue iodine deficiency treatment, especially in children.

To avoid iodine deficiency a common cause of mental retardation in children Myanmar had greatly increased iodized salt consumption to cover most households.

Yes, sir.

You'd better put some iodine on them cuts.

Since 1986, a programme for enhancing rainfall through cloud seeding from the ground with silver iodide has been implemented.

For example, under the global programme for attacking iodine deficiency disorder (IDD), a principal cause of mental retardation in children, some 40 countries now iodize over 75 per cent of salt and are poised to declare elimination of IDD.

Another 14 countries iodize more than 50 per cent of salt and are likely to achieve the salt iodization goal by 2000.

However, immunization coverage, universal salt iodization, safe water supply and environmental sanitation remain challenges.

I've drunk so much iodine from our army dispensary. He's like a knife in my heart.

234. The availability and use of iodized salt is not adequate.

Lack of dietary iodine causes growth stimulation in the thyroid, and some studies suggest that iodine deficiency increases the risk of radiation induced thyroid cancer.

Levels of deficiency in 40 of these countries are mild.

In 2000, the theme in Latvia was the Historical Latvian Rural Cultural Landscape.

The MC is in charge also of 3 higher education establishments the Latvian Academy of Culture, the Latvian Academy of Arts and the Latvian Jāzeps Vītols Academy of Music having 1,635 students altogether.

He's wasting me, even my palms get all sweaty.

Encouraging programmes such as salt iodization, and the use of fluoride mouthwashes in schools, to prevent endemic goitre and tooth decay in children.

Many cancer patients lose their hair because of the chemotherapy.

An increasingly more attention is being paid to the promotion of the Latvian cultural heritage in Latvia and abroad.

The delivery of 25 mobile salt iodization machines, bringing the total to 64, will enable Iraq to achieve universal salt iodization by the end of 2005.

Basically, about half of the world's population is lacking in iron, zinc, iodine and vitamin A.

(f) An estimated 1.5 billion more people now consume iodized salt than in 1990

Already for the sixth year Latvia participates in the days of the European cultural heritage, the Inspection on the Protection of Cultural Heritage being the organizer of these days in Latvia.

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Iodine deficiency is traditionally endemic in many of the areas affected by the Chernobyl accident.

There are also other foundations that operate and are accessible in Latvia and support cultural projects the Culture Fund, the Soros Foundation Latvia, and the Fund of Creativity etc.

In Ukraine and Belarus, in the past three years one of the areas of UNICEF cooperation with the Government has been the protection of the health and support for the development of infants and young children through increasing the rate of breastfeeding, eliminating iodine deficiency disorders through universal salt iodization, and developing primary health care models and better parenting initiatives.

The next reason that boys' cultures are out of sync with school cultures there are fewer male teachers.

An alliance of United Nations agencies, Governments, business, donors and NGOs is leading a successful campaign for universal salt iodization.

Iodine deficiency disorders are the most widespread cause of preventable mental retardation among children.

Milton Friedman's advice to countries exiting from communism apparently was privatize, privatize, privatize .

Currently there are more than 150 active national cultural societies in Latvia.

It had undertaken a self financed project with UNIDO to design a pilot plan for the production of iodized soybean oil aimed at reducing the number of people suffering from iodine deficiency disorders to 5 per cent of the current 15 million by the end of 1997.

After the poverty stricken counties are lifted out of poverty, relevant policies, supports and measures shall be continued for them.

The structure of causes of death has not changed very much in Latvia over the last 10 years.

All salt used for nutritional purposes and fortification_all flour used for bread making_is now being iodized.

Among the various legal acts that initially regulated privatisation, the Law On the Bank of Latvia of 19 May 1992 should be mentioned this Law created preconditions for the development of the private financial sector on the basis of the State banks network.

The Latvian National Archives continue to acquire personal archives of cultural workers, and during the last decade this set of documents has been amplified by documents of public and cultural workers Latvians in exile.

According to the Law On the Subterranean Depth of 2 May 1996, the subterranean depth and all natural resources located therein are the property of the owner of the land.

Despite efforts by the three most affected Governments, backed by the United Nations, legislation on the universal iodization of salt has not yet been passed in any of the three countries.