Recommended Dietary Allowances
10th Edition
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 1989
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National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on the Tenth Edition of the RDAs.
Recommended dietary allowances / Subcommittee on the Tenth Edition of the RDAs, Food and Nutrition Board, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.10th rev. ed.
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Rev. ed. of: Recommended dietary allowances / Committee on Dietary Allowances, Food and Nutrition Board, Division of Biological Sciences, Assembly of Life Sciences. National Research Council, 9th rev. ed. 1980.
Supported by funds from the National Institute of Health, United States Public Health Service, contract no: NO1-DK-8-2236.
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FOOD AND NUTRITION BOARD SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TENTH EDITION OF THE RDAS
RICHARD J. HAVEL (Chairman), Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California
DORIS H. CALLOWAY, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California
JOAN D. GUSSOW, Department of Nutrition Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York
WALTER MERTZ, Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
MALDEN C. NESHEIM, Provost, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Food and Nutrition Board Staff
SUSHMA PALMER, Director
PAUL R. THOMAS, Program Officer
FRANCES M. PETER, Editor
ALDON GRIFFIS, Research Assistant
MARIAN F. MILLSTONE, Research Assistant
The Food and Nutrition Board wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the Committee on Dietary Allowances that worked on the tenth edition from 1980 to 1985. The committee was chaired by the late Henry Kamin of Duke University Medical Center. Other members of the committee were Philip Farrell (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Helen A. Guthrie (Pennsylvania State University), Victor Herbert (Veterans Administration Medical Center, Bronx, New York), Robert Hodges (University of California, Irvine Medical Center), Max K. Horwitt (St. Louis University School of Medicine), Orville Levander (U.S. Department of Agriculture), Hellen Linkswiler (deceased; University of Wisconsin, Madison), James A. Olson (Iowa State University), and Peter L. Pellett (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). The Food and Nutrition Board staff included Myrtle L. Brown (executive secretary until August 1983), Sushma Palmer (director from July 1983), Linda D. Myers (project director), Frances M. Peter (editor), Marianne E. La Veille (research associate), and secretaries Susan Barron, Shirley E. Cole, Avis I. Harris, and Janie B. Marshall.
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FOOD AND NUTRITION BOARD
RICHARD J. HAVEL (Chairman), Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California
HAMISH N. MUNRO (Vice Chairman), U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
EDWARD J. CALABRESE, Environmental Health Program, Division of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
DORIS H. CALLOWAY, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California
WILLIAM E. CONNOR, Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
DeWITT S. GOODMAN, Director, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, New York
M.R.C. GREENWOOD, Department of Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
JOAN D. GUSSOW, Department of Nutrition Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York
JOHN E. KINSELLA, Institute of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
LAURENCE N. KOLONEL, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
BERNARD J. LISKA, Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
REYNALDO MARTORELL, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California
DONALD B. McCORMICK, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
WALTER MERTZ, Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland
MALDEN C. NESHEIM, Provost, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
J. MICHAEL McGINNIS (Ex Officio), Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
ARNO G. MOTULSKY (Ex Officio), Center for Inherited Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Food and Nutrition Board Staff
SUSHMA PALMER, Director
FRANCES M. PETER, Deputy Director
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COMMISSION ON LIFE SCIENCES
BRUCE M. ALBERTS (Chairman), Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California
PERRY L. ADKISSON, Office of the Chancellor, The Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas
FRANCISCO J. AYALA, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California
J. MICHAEL BISHOP, The G.W. Hooper Research Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, California
FREEMAN J. DYSON, School of Natural Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
NINA V. FEDOROFF, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland
RALPH W.F. HARDY, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell), Ithaca, New York
RICHARD J. HAVEL, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California
LEROY E. HOOD, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
DONALD F. HORNIG, Interdisciplinary Programs in Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
ERNEST G. JAWORSKI, Division of Biological Sciences, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri
SIMON A. LEVIN, Ecosystems Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
HAROLD A. MOONEY, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California
STEVEN P. PAKES, Division of Comparative Medicine, Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas
JOSEPH E. RALL, Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
RICHARD D. REMINGTON, Office of Academic Affairs, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
PAUL G. RISSER, Office of the Vice President, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
RICHARD B. SETLOW, Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
TORSTEN N. WIESEL, Laboratory of Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York
Commission on Life Sciences Staff
JOHN E. BURRIS, Executive Director
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Preface
This tenth edition of the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) reflects the work of two panels of the Food and Nutrition Board. The first, the Committee on Dietary Allowances, was appointed in 1980 and by 1985 had prepared a draft of this edition that, after an outside review overseen by the Report Review Committee of the National Research Council (NRC), was postponed for further consideration (Press, 1985). The second panel, a subcommittee of the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) itself, was appointed in 1987 to complete this, the tenth edition of the RDAs.
The FNB subcommittee began work in June 1987 under sponsorship of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases. Throughout its efforts, the subcommittee was keenly aware of the breadth of expertise needed to address its charge. Accordingly, after establishing criteria for developing RDAs that would be applied across nutrients, the subcommittee held special meetings with invited experts on several nutrients and consulted widely on difficult-to resolve issues and on the importance of new scientific data. Although the subcommittee sought the advice of others and considered the critiques of outside reviewers, it takes full responsibility for the recommendations and for any errors that may have escaped its attention.
This report has been approved by the Food and Nutrition Board and the NRC Report Review Committee. Both are satisfied that the tenth edition reflects a concurrence of scientific opinion and will be appropriate for use by governmental and private agencies as a basis for developing nutrition programs and policies pertaining to public health.
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The subcommittee thanks the many consultants who provided advice and help in revising the draft report: Drs. John G. Bieri, Gladys Block, George M. Briggs (deceased), C. Wayne Callaway, Kenneth J. Carpenter, Frank Chytil, William E. Connor, Steven Cummings, Peter R. Dallman, Stanley N. Gershoff, DeWitt S. Goodman, J.-P. Habicht, Phillip Harvey, Michael N. Kazarinoff, Janet C. King, Orville A. Levander, Sheldon Margen, Velimir Matkovic, Donald B. McCormick, Dennis Miller, Curtis D. Morris, Suzanne Murphy, Susan M. Oace, Robert R. Recker, Floyd C. Rector, Jerry M. Rivers, Howerde E. Sauberlich, Ruth Schwartz, Barry Shane, E.L. Robert Stokstad, John W. Suttie, Barbara A. Underwood, Robert H. Wasserman, and Regina Ziegler. We also wish to thank the members of the Board's Committee on Nutritional Status During Pregnancy and Lactation and its three subcommittees, whose members reviewed and commented on this report.
The subcommittee is also grateful to Dr. Alvin G. Lazen of the Commission on Life Sciences and to the staff of the Food and Nutrition Board for their help during various phases of our work: Dr. Sushma Palmer, Frances Peter, Aldon Griffis, Marian Millstone, Marion Ramsey Roberts, Sandra Johnson, Molly McGlade, and especially Dr. Paul R. Thomas for his able support to the subcommittee throughout the study.
Richard J. Havel, Chairman
Food and Nutrition Board and the Subcommittee on the Tenth Edition of the RDAs
REFERENCE
Press, F. 1985. Postponement of the 10th edition of the RDAs. J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 85:1644-1645.
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8 WATER-SOLUBLE VITAMINS | |
Vitamin C | |
Thiamin | |
Riboflavin | |
Niacin | |
Vitamin B6 | |
Folate | |
Vitamin B12 | |
Biotin | |
Pantothenic Acid, | |
9 MINERALS | |
Calcium | |
Phosphorus | |
Magnesium | |
10 TRACE ELEMENTS | |
Iron | |
Zinc | |
Iodine | |
Selenium | |
Copper | |
Manganese | |
Fluoride | |
Chromium | |
Molybdenum | |
11 WATER AND ELECTROLYTES | |
12 OTHER SUBSTANCES IN FOOD | |
INDEX | |
SUMMARY TABLE |
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