Show Are the RDA's the best game in town? Not by a long shot! Wood - Hie RDAs (Recommended Dietary Allowances) suggested intake levels for essential nutrient! have received a lot of flack over the years from heahhoonadous nutritionists aa well a the general public for faffing duct in many ways A large body of reiearch documents that many vitamins and minerals fat excess of RDA levels are beneficial for both preventing and treating disease But first a little background Back Food and Nutrition Board of the in 1941 die government-funde-d National Acadeniy of Sciences formulated the RDAs with the goal of advising on nutrition problems related to national defense Over the year the RDAs have undergone several revisions as scientific knowledge advanced die 10th edition is the current edition in print Vitamins and minenls have been added and recommended intake levels have increased as wdl as deoenaed for various nutrients - Continued from page 54 manied men in feet most of them woe too badly used up to take in the dance after they had won the rest" REAL MENWESTERN MEN Sept 191889 “ I don’t think it is any wooder some of the eastern people fed a difference in the air here And have such a time going over the Rockies If yon can get enough of the air there by using half your lungs I guess that smart young man you spoke of thought he had been to the West and thought himself just that much smarter than his comrades If Mrs Leavitt is better looking than her sister she must be a beauty I think Miss S is the best looking of our teachers here I don't suppose she is much stronger than an ordinary western girl For if what I have seen of eastern people are as strong as the average run I pity some of them If the haymakers in New England are as you describe them 1 would put Ellen Glover up against two of them You better be kind of careful when you get telling them what a western Man can do or they will say you axe the most unaccountable liar Yet have you saw many men in Medford you think you could not down and not half try Fm afraid It wont be long before you will be so What shall 1 say So EASTERN1HED (does that take it all in) that we will have to be carefull how we talk about your country TEASING BIG BROTHER Several downfalls of the RDAs The RDAs are designed to simply reflect how much of a particular nutrient is necessary to prevent disease-levdeficiency A case in point is vitamin C The RDA for vitamin C was established by determining die minimum amount of fids vitamin needed to keep scurvy at bay in a group of six male convicts After adding in a margin of erne the RDA for vitamin C was set at 60 mg daily (recently upped to 100 mg for smokers) This became thegoU standard” for vitamin C intake despite the fact that mudi larger amounts of vitamin C have been shown by scores of research studies to be valuable for health In a similar vein many experts have raised the concern that the RDAs are in theory limited the needs of an “average” man or woman in good health Yet in practice the RDAs are applied to everyone even if they are For instance the RDAs are probably not adequate for not "average those facing an nines using long-termedications the elderly or anyone else with a condition that alters nutrient requirements Lifestyle can also have a considerable impact on an individual's nutritional needs which again is not factored into the RDAs (with the exception of vitamin C for smokers) Exercise alcohol use and excessive stress are examples of lifestyle factors that may increase the body's use and requirement of several nutrients el m Jan 14 1889 I reed your letter and also the paper you sent We have sent for some ink powder We killed our beef last Thursday It was fat and splendid meat We had a dance at Ena Mccombs' last night It was die best dance we have had this winter We made up a lot at mince meat See that you are batchiog it (a bache lor) I would send you a pie if it was easier sent But as it is I will make one and eat it for you N Where docs optimal health fit in? The most significant shortcoming of die RDAs is that they do not take into account various intake levels of nutrients which contribute to an Feb 24 1890 NM I never thought any thing about what your PanL looks like But the him nd Mr WiL Ross set me curious to know Anyway I admire die curling hair of the latter But if your room mate is as poor as his picture represents and you growing fat it must be because he don’t get an equal share Vitamins C and E and the carotenoid lutein have been shown to prog diseases of old age Folk acid (a B tect againet common defect and along with other B the risk birth reduces of certain vitambi) vitamins protects against heart disease All of these examples are based on vitamin intakes far in excess of the current RDAs hi fact optimal intake of most nutrients seconding to health experts is probably 10 to 200 times higher than the RDAs In the book Stop Aging Nowf Jean Carper relays the view of Tufts University professor Dr Jeffrey Blumbeig who regards the RDAs as 'increasingly irrelevant to today's pubik health concerns of aging and chrosuc disease" Tne time has come for a new ere of nutrition recommendations an era that reflects die red goals of health Recommended intakes for nutrients should not have as their goal die mere prevention of deficiencies but die achievement of optimal health The best way to meet our nutritional goals is with a balanced diet and supplementation THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME Bond teeac Tkcntoa is as it used to be only worse There is nothing of any kind going on of note so there is nothing to write” Jcnlooe teen: "Red Sandberg went to Logan and brought home newt that Miss Thornson and Will G are going to be married- I told you he was'ent too smart for that I don't think one is much above the othet Anybody can judge that if she is’nt smart enough to see he is soft she is’nt very far along herself" When the teachertaway- - “Miss Thomson is going to Salt Lake AH the New West teachers are going to be there We are having a dance evty night of the week" Nettie got married in 1919 and moved to Canada She and her hustand a school teacher She eventually moved to Oregon where Nettie became died in 1956 vision-dimmin- 752-13- 15 438 12 N QUALITY VALUE SERVICE Main Logan (Ubwtnon Shopping Center) Page 55 |