Shrek vs. puss in boots
Ever wonder as I do when you go to the hospital and the MD orders your medications while you’re there and also puts you on a multivitamin, vitamin C, folic acid and generally some zinc? I wonder that perhaps they are of course boosting Big Pharma’s profit margins and why did they wait until someone got sick.
The majority of the times the people that are treated that way have a feeding tube in their stomach because possibly due to a stroke, they would choke or easily get pneumonia if they took it via their mouth. They are already in a debilitated state, yet the MD doesn’t have a grasp of the requirements for the vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids they will require to possibly recover from their illness. So let’s take a look at where the RDA’s (recommended daily allowances) came from.
History
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) was developed during World War II by Lydia J. Roberts, Hazel K. Stiebeling and Helen S. Mitchell, all part of a committee established by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in order to investigate issues of nutrition that might "affect national defense”. The committee was renamed the Food and Nutrition Board in 1941, after which they began to deliberate on a set of recommendations of a standard daily allowance for each type of nutrient. The standards would be used for nutrition recommendations for the armed forces, for civilians, and for overseas population who might need food relief. Roberts, Stiebeling, and Mitchell surveyed all available data, created a tentative set of allowances for "energy and eight nutrients", and submitted them to experts for review. The final set of guidelines, called RDAs for Recommended Dietary Allowances, was accepted in 1941. The allowances were meant to provide superior nutrition for civilians and military personnel, so they included a "margin of safety." Because of food rationing during the war, the food guides created by government agencies to direct citizens' nutritional intake also took food availability into account.
The Food and Nutrition Board subsequently revised the RDAs every five to ten years. In the early 1950s, USDA nutritionists made a new set of guidelines that also included the number of servings of each food group in order to make it easier for people to receive their RDAs of each nutrient.
Applications
Applications include:
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) was developed during World War II by Lydia J. Roberts, Hazel K. Stiebeling and Helen S. Mitchell, all part of a committee established by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in order to investigate issues of nutrition that might "affect national defense”. The committee was renamed the Food and Nutrition Board in 1941, after which they began to deliberate on a set of recommendations of a standard daily allowance for each type of nutrient. The standards would be used for nutrition recommendations for the armed forces, for civilians, and for overseas population who might need food relief. Roberts, Stiebeling, and Mitchell surveyed all available data, created a tentative set of allowances for "energy and eight nutrients", and submitted them to experts for review. The final set of guidelines, called RDAs for Recommended Dietary Allowances, was accepted in 1941. The allowances were meant to provide superior nutrition for civilians and military personnel, so they included a "margin of safety." Because of food rationing during the war, the food guides created by government agencies to direct citizens' nutritional intake also took food availability into account.
The Food and Nutrition Board subsequently revised the RDAs every five to ten years. In the early 1950s, USDA nutritionists made a new set of guidelines that also included the number of servings of each food group in order to make it easier for people to receive their RDAs of each nutrient.
Applications
Applications include:
- Food labels in the United States and Canada
- Composition of diets for schools, prisons, hospitals or nursing homes
- Industries developing new food stuffs
- Healthcare policy makers and public health officials
In 1997, at the suggestion of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy, the RDA became one part of a broader, more detailed set of dietary guidelines, called the Dietary Reference Intake.
Current recommendations
The current Dietary Reference Intake recommendation is composed of:
- Estimated Average Requirements (EAR), expected to satisfy the needs of 50% of the people in that age group.
- Reference Daily Intake (RDI), the daily dietary intake level of a nutrient considered sufficient to meet the requirements of nearly all (97–98%) healthy individuals in each life-stage and gender group.
- Adequate Intake (AI), where no RDI has been established, but the amount established is somewhat less firmly believed to be adequate for everyone in the demographic group.
- Tolerable upper intake levels (UL), to caution against excessive intake of nutrients (like vitamin D) that can be harmful in large amounts.
Wow! I think that’s a lot of info. One of the things that came to mind was there any research into it and why did I never hear of any of these folks.
An article context in the prestigious JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association dated back in June 19, 2002 (Vol 287, No 23)
Context: Although vitamin deficiency is encountered infrequently in developed countries, inadequate intake of several vitamins is associated with chronic disease.
Guess they were trying to sound good.
The article goes on to say that each vitamins advantages/benefits were brought to light never mentioning that cofactors are needed for the absorption of these vitamins. And why does the United States claim they have optimal health care yet 1 out of 2 people suffer from some form of cancer? Because Shrek needs more vitamins, minerals and and essential nutrients than puss in boots (just a size reference entirely). The RDA does not account for this at all. It lists on a food label what’s in the product the amount of nutrients and there types.
So let’s go back to the 1920’s when there were naturopathic and homeopathic medical schools. Because of the efforts of Andrew Carnegie(steel guy) and Nelson Rockefellers desire to put their money where medical education should go, we lost the homeopathic and naturopathic schools. They put their cash into allopathic medical schools. Bet you didn’t know that Rockefeller kept his homeopathic doctor till the day he died! What a hippocrite! The Flexner report was a striking blow as to how medicine is practiced. And with the advent of antibiotics in World war 1-nutrition was all but removed from medical school curriculum.
Now it has come full circle-We are viewing the successes of naturopathic, homeopathic, ayurvedic, acupuncture and chiropractic medicine. But current research has shown that without the essential nutrients of life and the ability to NOT get them from the foods we eat WE SUFFER! And after 33yrs in the medical field in prehospital and nursing, this blows my mind! Nothing my MD did when I was ill with hypertension, blood clots, diabetes type 2, and obesity except say take these medicines and lose weight. I had to take charge of my health!
I currently help anyone who desires to recover their health in a natural way. We have the tools, the studies and the technology along with an incredible team of Doctors and nurses and alternative medicine professionals who are willing to help you regain optimal health.
Keep an OPEN mind and I encourage all of you to get the amount of the 90(91) essential nutrients in proportion for weight and health challenges and stand back-----------the body will heal itself!
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Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
“The Commander”
Mark Denning RN
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