Dzakhmisheva I.Sh. 1
1 FGBOU VPO «Kabardino-Balkarian State Agrarian University of V.M. Kokov»
In all objects of the biosphere (water, the earth, plants) the mountain regions of Kabardino-Balkar Republic the lowered content of iodine is revealed. Way of life of the modern person, being characterized sharp decrease in physical activity, the lack of vitamins and microcells of a food allowance, decrease in consumption of iodine with food and water became the reason of chronic iodic insufficiency and mass violations of function of a thyroid gland of the population of Kabardino-Balkar Republic. Deficiency of iodine in a food of the person leads to decrease in intellectual potential owing to a delay of intellectual and physical development, to a disease of a craw. In recent years the steady tendency on food use for prevention and treatment of yododefitsitny diseases was outlined. The prevention directions йододефицита by means of products in which iodine collects a natural way (a laminaria, seafood, sea cabbage, haricot, garlic, beet, tomatoes, soy, grapes, a garden radish, green salad, carrots, potatoes, green peas, grain, etc.) and the food enriched with iodine (table salt, bread, dairy products) are offered. Iodinated additives (iodates or iodides of potassium, calcium and sodium)and most often applied ways of enrichment by iodine of food, their merits and demerits are considered. Actions for prevention deficiency of iodine.