The Essential Guide to Nutrient Requirements

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Dom_m
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in Food and Nutrition
The National Academies Press has released updated dietary reference intakes (RDI). Think of it as the new bible for nutrition. You can download it for free here:

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11537&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: nap/new (New from the National Academies Press)

[You have to give them a name and a verifiable email address to download the document]

The description from the website is:
Widely regarded as the classic reference work for the nutrition, dietetic, and allied health professions since its introduction in 1943, Recommended Dietary Allowances has been the accepted source in nutrient allowances for healthy people. Responding to the expansion of scientific knowledge about the roles of nutrients in human health, the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, in partnership with Health Canada, has updated what used to be known as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) and renamed their new approach to these guidelines Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). Since 1998, the Institute of Medicine has issued eight exhaustive volumes of DRIs that offer quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets applicable to healthy individuals in the United States and Canada. Now, for the first time, all eight volumes are summarized in one easy-to-use reference volume, Dietary Reference Intakes: The Essential Reference for Dietary Planning and Assessment. Organized by nutrient for ready use, this popular reference volume reviews the function of each nutrient in the human body, food sources, usual dietary intakes, and effects of deficiencies and excessive intakes. For each nutrient of food component, information includes:

* Estimated average requirement and its standard deviation by age and gender.
* Recommended dietary allowance, based on the estimated average requirement and deviation.
* Adequate intake level, where a recommended dietary allowance cannot be based on an estimated average requirement.
* Tolerable upper intake levels above which risk of toxicity would increase. Along with dietary reference values for the intakes of nutrients by Americans and Canadians, this book presents recommendations for health maintenance and the reduction of chronic disease risk. Also included is a Summary Table of Dietary Reference Intakes, an updated practical summary of the recommendations. In addition, Dietary Reference Intakes: The Essential Reference for Dietary Planning and Assessment provides information about:
* Guiding principles for nutrition labeling and fortification
* Applications in dietary planning
* Proposed definition of dietary fiber
* A risk assessment model for establishing upper intake levels for nutrients
* Proposed definition and plan for review of dietary antioxidants and related compounds

Dietitians, community nutritionists, nutrition educators, nutritionists working in government agencies, and nutrition students at the postsecondary level, as well as other health professionals, will find Dietary Reference Intakes: The Essential Reference for Dietary Planning and Assessment an invaluable resource.

[nb: I'm not associated with the product or the press, I'm posting this because I'm sure there are people on this site that will find it useful]

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  • tater8589
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  • stringcheeze
    stringcheeze Posts: 286
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    Unless I'm looking in the wrong spot, the only thing you can download for free are the references.... To get the info, you need to spend $45 on the book.
  • Dom_m
    Dom_m Posts: 337 Member
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    Unless I'm looking in the wrong spot, the only thing you can download for free are the references.... To get the info, you need to spend $45 on the book.

    Actually, I'm having that problem too. The page implies you can download the whole book, but the document it links to is only the bibliography. I've contacted NAP about it and will update here once I get a reply.
  • MsLisaB
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    I just found a downloadable spreadsheet of the Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand here: http://www.nrv.gov.au/resources/index.htm

    There's some other reference stuff there as well.
  • itzamos
    itzamos Posts: 24
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    I don't suppose anyone feels like summarizing for those of us who are too lazy to read it?
  • nikhil_c8
    nikhil_c8 Posts: 100 Member
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    I don't suppose anyone feels like summarizing for those of us who are too lazy to read it?

    LOL ...I was just thinking the same :)

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