A new mother is breastfeeding her infant. The nurse asks the mother if she is getting the correct amounts of dietary reference intakes. Which statement from the mother indicates a correct understanding of dietary guidelines?
a. "I am not concerned about dietary guidelines or a strict diet."
b. "I am taking the vitamin doses according to the television advertisements."
c. "I am only taking one multiple vitamin a day and eating whatever I want."
d. "I am eating the correct amount of food according to the recommended dietary allowances and adequate intakes."
D
When the mother said "recommended dietary allowance," it indicated that she knew about the RDAs and the adequate intakes indicates she knew about the AI. In 1997 the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, in partnership with Health Canada, initiated dietary reference intakes (DRIs) in response to the increased public use of nutritional supplements. There are four components to the DRIs: estimated average requirement (EAR), recommended dietary allowances (RDAs), adequate intakes (AIs), and tolerable upper intake levels (ULs). Saying, "I am not concerned about dietary guidelines" or "taking vitamin according to the television advertisements" and "eating whatever I want" does not indicate a correct understanding of the DRIs.
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