Meeting Recommended Dietary Allowances

Harper, Alfred E.

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Alfred E. Harper Ph.D.⁵

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Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) are the best known and most widely used nutrition standards in the United States. They are estabHshed by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) as guidelines for assessing the adequacy of intakes of essential nutrients. Such standards are needed for evaluating the nutritional adequacy of diets both for maintenance of health and for treatment of disease. They are needed as guides for recommendations for modification of the diets of persons who may be at risk of nutritional inadequacy owing to inappropriate food selection. They serve as the basis for recommendations for modification of the national food supply when some type of nutritional inadequacy is identified as a public health problem.

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Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Dr. Alfred E. Harper Ph.D. (E.V. McCollum Professor of Nutritional Sciences)

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Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA
Lewis A. Barness M.D. (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Professor and Chairman) (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Professor and Chairman)
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Yank D. Coble Jr. M.D. (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition) (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition)
Clearwater, Florida, USA
Donald Ian MacDonald M.D. (Member of the Florida Medical Association) (Member of the Florida Medical Association)
Nutrition Division, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
George Christakis M.D., M.P.H. (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Chief) (Member of the Florida Medical Association, Chief)

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Harper, A.E. (1981). Meeting Recommended Dietary Allowances. In: Barness, L.A., Coble, Y.D., MacDonald, D.I., Christakis, G. (eds) Nutrition and Medical Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6695-9_13

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