How Should the Recommended Dietary Allowances be Revised? (1994) / Chapter Skim
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APPENDIX B: NEED FOR CHANGE VOICED BY THE SCIENTIFIC AND ADVOCACY COMMUNITIES
APPENDIX B: NEED FOR CHANGE VOICED BY THE SCIENTIFIC AND ADVOCACY COMMUNITIES
Pages 29-34
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By serving as the independent standards of nutritional adequacy, the RDAs play an important role in determining meals served in hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, publicly run residential care institutions, and other places where the participants' nutritional status and health are likely to be marginal. The RDAs act as independent guideposts for developing nutritional standards for federal food assistance programs and serve to protect the nutritional integrity of these programs.
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Additional documentation would describe the state of knowledge concerning the levels of nutrients and food components needed for health promotion and disease prevention, to provide guidance to professionals who are using the RDAs for a variety of applications, and to identify gaps in knowledge so research priorities can be established. A suggestion was made to merge dietary guidelines with the RDAs to promote one consistent message to the public and to provide this information for the public's use in a less scientific and more accessible publication than the traditional RDA text.
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The viewpoints expressed regarding specific revisions can be divided into three areas: recommendations for an increase in an existing RDA, recommendations for a decrease in an existing RDA, and recommendations for establishing a new RDA for a particular nutrient or food component not currently covered. One or more commenters concluded that sufficient data have accumulated that would argue for increasing the RDAs for folic acid, calcium, vitamin D, and the antioxidant vitamins (ascorbic acid and vitamin E)
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Several individuals expressed the opinion that when sufficient data are unavailable to establish an RDA but the emerging trend indicates that certain nutrients have physiological or biochemical implications for health, that emerging information should be communicated, and the recommended levels should reflect an adequate and safe range of intake. A small number of commenters argued that the RDAs should remain distinct from dietary guidelines for reducing the risk of chronic disease.
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Form expert panels of individuals with specific training and experience to devise a particular nutrient recommendation. Once the RDAs are revised, expend considerable efforts to promote healthful diets to the public and health care providers.
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