title: Comprehensive Handbook of Iodine: Nutritional, Biochemical, Pathological and Therapeutic Aspects
author: Victor R. Preedy
description: Victor R. Preedy, PhD, is Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, at the King's College in London. He is also a Professor of Clinical Biochemistry in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry. Dr. Preedy is also Director of the Genomics Centre, King's College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2000. In 1993, he gained a D.Sc. degree for his outstanding contribution to protein metabolism. He was elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (2004) and The Royal Institute of Public Health (2004). In 2009, Dr. Preedy was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). He has written or edited over 550 articles, which includes over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research and 85 reviews and 30 books. His interests pertain to matters concerning Public Health and how this is influenced by nutrition, addictions and other lifestyle factors. Professor Preedy is especially committed to bridging the person-public health divide.<br /><br />Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watsons career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.
zlib_text: Iodine …
  
  
  the Health Solution for Many…
  
  
  and Known by So Few…
  
  
  Are you cold all the time? Are you always on a diet? Do you constantly gain
  weight or can’t take it off, even when you drastically reduce calorie intake?
  Do you feel that your brain is scrambled—that you are in a “fog”?
  
  
  In your hands is the solution: the introduction of dietary iodine is proven to
  stop the progress of, and reverse, many illnesses—and it is a medicine that
  has been around for 15,000 years!
  
  
  
  
  
  **•** Everybody knows certain environmental toxins cause cancer. What people
  don’t know is these toxins also make you “sick, fat and stupid.” _The Iodine
  Crisis_ began when bromine use escalated over the last 30 years. Bromines
  deplete essential iodine.
  
  
  **•** Where are bromines? They are everywhere: flour, fire-retardants,
  pesticides, certain foods and sodas, drugs and personal care products.
  
  
  **•** Is there a system for supplementing iodine? _The Iodine Crisis_ reveals
  one that iodine takers have used since 2