Lowering dietary protein to U.S. Recommended
dietary allowance levels reduces urinary calcium excretion and bone resorption in young women.
Not exact matches
However, the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (formerly National Academy of Sciences) used a plasma PLP
level of 20 nmol / L as the major indicator of adequacy to calculate the Recommended
Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for adults [1,3].
These recommendations included Adequate Intake (AI)
levels for infants under one year of age, and Recommended
Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for everyone else.
It is becoming increasingly clear that iodine deficiency interferes with optimum breast health, and intake of
levels far higher than the recommended
dietary allowance of 150 - 290 mcg is required to achieve benefits.
Is the optimal
level of protein intake for older adults greater than the recommended
dietary allowance?