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GENERAL FOOD AND NUTRITION

Dietary guidelines, food guides

RDA, RDI, DRV issues

Nutrients, vitamins and minerals

Nutrition calculators, interactive quizes etc.

Supplementation and fortification

Pick of the crop US Dietary Guidelines resources A whole set of resources from the guidelines themselves to the background reports and papers that underlie them.

Australian dietary guidelines

From the official source of the Australian government's dietary guidelines, the National Health and Medical Research Council, this web page features a wide variety of resources on the guidelines, including a lengthy background document, lay explanations and posters, material for educators etc. Most of it is in Acrobat format.

Canada: Guidelines for Healthy Eating

There is quite a lot of material available on the web concerning Canada's guidelines, including on the Food Guide to Healthy Eating.

Dole Five a Day: fruit and vege awareness program

Home page of Dole Food Company, has content on the US "5 A Day for Better Health" program, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute to raise awareness about the health benefits associated with eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

FAO report: Preparation and use of food-based dietary guidelines

Detailed document resulting from a 1996 FAO conference has a substantial flavour towards developing world nutrition needs.

Asian Diet Pyramid

Very plain graphic with few paragraphs of accompanying press release from Cornell.

Nutrition Guide for Men

Some public health facts and general information on healthy eating from Univ.of Nebraska (Lincoln) Extension,

Dietary Guidelines and New Nutrition

From Nutramed. The US dietary guidelines are reproduced here, together with a personal `alternative' view on nutrition and health in the environmental medicine context.

 

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RDA, RDI, DRV issues

Pick of the crop Recommended Dietary Intakes for use in Australia Although this is the background document for the Australian RDI tables, the information and presentation in this web resource will be valuable for a wider readership.

USA: Dietary Reference Intakes and Recommended Dietary Allowances

USDA has a set of resources relevant to these standards, including the tables of values themselves, press releases, some reports and ordering information for others. Other information is available from the Institute of Medicine web site.

How Should the Recommended Dietary Allowances be Revised?: Nat. Ac.Sciences report (1994)

Full text on-line version of the 1994 Report of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Don't be put off by the fact that page 1 is blank!!

Dietary Reference Intakes: A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Upper Intake Levels for Nutrients.

On-line Acrobat document dating from 1999.

Dietary Reference Intakes: Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride (PREPUBLICATION COPY)

From Institute of Medicine Food and Nutrition Board, this document is a proof version of "Dietary Reference Intakes: Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride" by Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes

Joanne Larson: RDIs and food labels

Joanne Larsen's common sense explanations to lay enquirers on RDIs and value labels.

Vitamin E and the RDA: an interview

Very interesting interview with Dr. Max Horwitt conducted by Dr.Richard Passwater, looking at the basis for the RDI for this nutrient. Dr.Horwitt was involved in many of the early studies on which the RDI was based, whilst Dr.Passwater's perspective appears to be that the RDI might be too low.

Reference Daily Intakes for various nutrients

FDA ruling on new Reference Daily Intakes for vitamin K, selenium, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, and chloride, but not for fluoride.

Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline (Prepublication Copy) (1998)

Pre-publication proof of the report by the National Academy of Sciences " Dietary Reference Intakes: Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline."

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