What is MFP dietary recommendations based on?

heykatieben

What are the daily recommended amounts of fats, proteins, sugar, etc based on? Where do these numbers come from? Thanks.

MJ7910

i've always wondered this too. the protein always has seemed a bit low.

wolfchild59

The Federal dietary and nutrition guidelines. They give a range on macros and MFP sorta picks a middle ground. The nutrients are just the Federal RDAs.

All the government info is here: http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2010/DietaryGuidelines2010.pdf. It says 2010, but it's the one that was published Jan 2011.

heykatieben

Thanks!