NUTR 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dietary Fiber, Vitamin K, Stomach Cancer
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Traditional recommendations: set of standards for energy and nutrients, canada: rni, recommended nutrient intakes, usa: rda, recommend dietary allowances, revised periodically, goal to prevent nutrient deficiencies * Dri overall project structure: in middle came all the dri publications - don"t need to know the books. *study: consist of four reference values, ear, rda, ai, ul, quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes, take into account more than just preventing deficiency, used for planning and assessing diets of healthy people. * study: expanded knowledge regarding the role of nutrients in preventing of chronic disease, extend goal of recommendations beyond preventing deficiencies, incorporate chronic disease, not just deficiency disease, harmonize canada and usa. How are the dris different: health maintenance and risk reduction, four vs. one, us and canada, will no longer be revived every x number of years, if new data demands, dris for individual nutrients will be immediately revised.
