11.   No effect of iodine deficiency is more sadly dramatic than cretinism.

12.   While efforts continue, awareness is growing of the staggering consequences of iodine deficiency in terms of mental and physical disabilities.

13.   Alarmed by the high incidence of iodine deficiency disorders among Filipinos, the Senate has passed a bill requiring that only iodized salt be sold in the market.

14.   Americans, for instance, eat iodized salt, the easiest way to fight iodine deficiency.

15.   Broader immunization has brought polio to the brink of erradication, progress has been made against iodine deficiency and the promotion of breast-feeding standards, Bellamy said.

16.   Experts say iodized salt is the cheapest iodine source in a country where iodine deficiency is attributed to lack of access to iodine-rich food such as seafood.

17.   Experts attribute iodine deficiency to a lack of access by many poor Filipinos to seafood, a rich source of iodine.

18.   In extreme cases, iodine deficiency can cause goiter and cretinism, a thyroid deficiency causing arrested mental and physical deformity.

19.   Iodine deficiency, a major cause of mental disabilities and learning difficulties, will be eliminated in three years, U.N. officials and salt industry executives predicted Wednesday.

20.   Iodine deficiency can cause paralysis, deaf-mutism, dwarfism, facial and physical deformities, cretinism and nerve damage.