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Appendix B: Origin and Framework of the Development of Dietary Reference Intakes
Pages 978-984

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... It held several symposia at nutrition-focused professional meetings to discuss FNB's tentative plans and to receive responses to the initial concept paper. Many aspects of the conceptual framework of the DRIs came from the United Kingdom's report, Dietary Reference Values for Food Energy and Nutrients for the United Kingdom (COMA, 1991)
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From page 979...
... . Consensus following a symposium for Canadian scientists, cosponsored by the Canadian National Institute of Nutrition and Health Canada in April 1995, was that the Canadian government should pursue the extent to which involvement with the developing FNB process would benefit both Canada and the United States in leading toward harmonization.
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From page 980...
... develop estimates of dietary intake of these compounds that are compatible with good nutrition throughout the lifespan and that may decrease risk of chronic disease where data indicate they play a role; (4) determine Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs)
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From page 981...
... have been established, the required assumption of distribution of requirements is that of symmetry about the mean. In the case of iron, a nutrient of concern in many subgroups in the population in the United States, Canada, and other areas, requirements are known to follow a nonnormal distribution.
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From page 982...
... Reference Heights and Weights Used in Extrapolating Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamins and Elements The most up-to-date data providing heights and weights of individuals in the United States and Canada when the DRI process was initiated in 1995 were limited to anthropometric data from the 1988­1994 Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) in the United States, and older data from Canada.
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From page 983...
... . Similarly, median weights beyond age 1 year derived from the recent survey in the United States (NHANES III, 1988­1994)
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From page 984...
... were thus based on the most recent data set available from either country, with recognition that earlier surveys in Canada indicated shorter stature and lower weights during adolescence than did surveys in the United States. REFERENCES COMA (Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy)
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