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Trendy diets and veganism could lead to birth defects – South Burnett Times
Pregnant women on diets lacking iodine and vegans are putting their unborn children at risk of birth defects, experts warn.
Trendy diets and veganism are putting pregnant women at risk of giving birth to children with neurological defects, experts warn.
A University of South Australia study found women in a trial had disturbingly low levels of iodine, essential for foetal intellectual development.
In the 1960s, a former chancellor at the university, Basil Hetzel, made the link between low iodine and birth defects, leading to an international push to put iodine in products such as salt.
Now, the small UniSA study – which…
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