FED:Lack of iodine, vitamin D in indigenous

AAP General News (Australia)
02-06-2011
FED:Lack of iodine, vitamin D in indigenous

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By Danny Rose, AAP Medical Writer

SYDNEY, Feb 6 AAP - Two new studies have shown how the basic nutritional needs of indigenous
Australians are not being met.

Researchers have detected iodine deficiency - previously thought to occur only in the
nation's south-eastern states - for the first time among an Aboriginal population in the
NT.

Almost 400 aboriginal teens living in remote as well as urban areas of the Darwin Health
Region, which covers 120,000 km-square of the top end …