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The Role of Nutrition Research in Policy and Program Planning
Pages 144-147

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... However, those scientists who set the RDAs and REls gave insufficient consideration to the potential harm of safety margins that are too generous, and nutritionists who use the RDAs to interpret intake data from population surveys pay insufficient heed to the safety margins, which are variously inflated for various nutrients. Reported results, ~en, may show erroneously high inadequate intakes of some nutrients and distorted ranking of nutrients of public health concern.
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... At the level of the total population, the United States is in the forefront in developing nutritional monitoring mechanisms. These systems, in which large national probability samples are surveyed, demonstrate that nutritional deficiencies in the United States today are relatively uncommon.
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... Another example: dental caries is a nutritionally caused heady problem with the highest incidence in the United States, although it is not a classic lifethreatening deficiency clisease. And, in contrast to what many people believe, the most feasible approach to preventing dental caries is not simply to curtail sugar intake but to increase food resistance by the use of fluoride (Horowitz, 1980~.
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... Nutnent Adequacy: Assessment Using Food Consumption Surveys. A report of a committee of the Food and Nutrition Board, Commission on Life Sciences.
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