“The DRI recommendations for nutrient intake include four sets of values. The
Estimated Average Requirements are average amounts of nutrients or other dietary components required by healthy individuals in a population. They are determined using experimental data on nutrient needs and are used in assessing the adequacy of a population's food supply or typical intake. They are not appropriate for evaluating an individual's intake but are used to calculate the
Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). The RDAs recommend specific amounts of nutrients and other dietary components to meet the needs of most healthy people. When there is not enough data about nutrient requirements to establish EARs and RDAs, are set, based on what healthy people typically eat. RDA or AI values can be used as goals for individual intake and to plan and evaluate individual diets, they are meant to represent the amounts that most healthy people should consume, on average, over several days or even weeks, not each and every day. Because they are set high enough to meet the needs of almost all healthy people, intake below the RDA or AI does not necessarily mean that an individual is deficient, but the risk of deficiency is greater than if the individual consumed the recommended amount” (Wiley Plus,
2012). Based on this I would say that my intake for the day of September 7, 2012 followed the guidelines very well.
“The human body requires many vitamins and minerals in order to function properly.
Although eating a balanced and healthy diet often provides the full amount of the necessary vitamins and minerals, deficiencies can cause symptoms or lead to the onset of disease” (Med
Line Plus, 2012). “In June 2011, My-Plate replaced MyPyramid as the government's primary food group symbol. My-Plate is an easy-to-understand visual cue to help consumers adopt
healthy