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• RDAs (Recommended Dietary Allowances) — A set of estimated nutrient allowances established by the National Academy of Sciences. It is updated periodically to reflect current scientific knowledge …   Medical dictionary

• Dietary Reference Intake — The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is a system of nutrition recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The DRI system is used by both the United States and Canada and is intended for the general …   Wikipedia

• Dietary Reference Intakes — DRI. A set of guidelines developed by U.S. and Canadian scientists to give information about the role of nutrients in human health. These guidelines include the Reference Daily Intakes (RDI), which are the recommended amounts of nutrients to be… …   English dictionary of cancer terms

• Dietary Reference Intake — n a set of guidelines for the daily intake of nutrients (as vitamins, protein, and fats) and other food components (as fiber) that include recommended daily allowances, adequate daily intake values for nutrients having undetermined recommended… …   Medical dictionary

• DRI — Dietary Reference Intakes. A set of guidelines developed by U.S. and Canadian scientists to give information about the role of nutrients in human health. These guidelines include the Reference Daily Intakes (RDI), which are the recommended… …   English dictionary of cancer terms

• Recommended Daily Allowance — Die Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs), auch Recommended Dietary Allowances, geben die Mengen von essentiellen Nährstoffen an, die nach dem aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Kenntnisstand für ausreichend angesehen werden, den täglichen Bedarf nahezu… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Human nutrition — For aspects of nutrition science not specific to humans, see Nutrition. Human nutrition is the provision to humans to obtain the materials necessary to support life. In general, humans can survive for two to eight weeks without food, depending on …   Wikipedia

• Nutrition — The Nutrition Facts table indicates the amounts of nutrients which experts recommend to limit or consume in adequate amounts. Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in… …   Wikipedia

• Reference Daily Intake — The Reference Daily Intake or Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97–98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States (where it …   Wikipedia

• Hazel Stiebeling — Hazel Katherine Stiebeling (1896 1989) was an American nutritionist who pioneered the development of USDA programs for nutrition including USDA daily dietary allowances of vitamins and minerals.Early lifeStiebeling was born in Haskins, Ohio in… …   Wikipedia

• nutrition, human — Introduction       process by which substances in food are transformed into body tissues and provide energy for the full range of physical and mental activities that make up human life.   The study of human nutrition is interdisciplinary in… …   Universalium