Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
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ISBN: 9781133603184
Author: Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Nutrition is a vast topic. One can have many questions regarding the nutritional parameters. The questions regarding the nutritional parameters can be answered by reading the scientific researches related to the nutritional values.
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The Dietary Reference Intake Intakes (DRIs) may be used to:
a. treat people with diet-related disorders
b. asses adequacy of all required nitruents
c. plan and asses diets for healthy people
d. asses adequacy of only vitamins and minerals
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Recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) are the amounts of essential nutrients that experts believe:
A. can restore undernourished or malnourished people to full health.
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