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Military Recommended Dietary Allowances
Military Recommended Dietary Allowances
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requested that the CMNR discuss the MRDA review and revision at its subsequent meeting. The impetus for initiating a discussion of the adequacy of the current MRDA and the need for revision resulted from the publication of the 10th edition of the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA; for the general, healthy American population)
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Because of the emphasis on military nutrition, the FNB was established in 1940 under the auspices of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, and began to prepare and publish RDAs for Americans. In 1947, the Department of the Army implemented military regulation AR 40-250, providing specified minimum nutrient intake levels as the dietary standard for garrison and field rations.
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On November 5, 1993 a sub-committee of the CMNR reviewed the comparison document and the original and draft revisions in detail. The Committee on Military Nutrition Research's role was to evaluate, comment upon and make specific recommendations regarding changes in the MRDAs designed to reflect changes where appropriate, in the latest version of the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs)
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26 CMNR ACTIVITY REPORT [USAMRDALC (PROVE and Department of the Army, Office of the Surgeon General in late 1994 or early 1995.
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