Dietary Reference Intake Infants

The dietary reference intake dri framework for recommending nutrient intakes as adopted by the iom in north america and canada aims to provide quantitative reference values for recommended intakes and safe upper intakes of nutrients ross and institute of medicine u s committee to review dietary reference intakes for vitamin d and.

Dietary reference intake infants. The dietary reference intakes dris are developed and published by the institute of medicine iom. These documents are issued by the food and nutrition board of the institute of medicine national academy of sciences the food and nutrition board addresses issues of safety quality and adequacy of the food supply. 1 13 these general recommendations echo other recent public health dietary guidelines in emphasizing low intakes of saturated and trans fat cholesterol.

To our knowledge few studies have described the usual nutrient intakes of us children aged 2 y or assessed the nutrient adequacy of their diets relative to the recommended dietary reference intakes dris. The dris represent the most current scientific knowledge on nutrient needs of healthy populations. Dris provide the reference values for assessment and planning functions in nutrition 121 that is the ear which is the median requirement the rda which is the amount that meets the needs of almost all 97 5 healthy persons in the population the adequate intake ai which is set for infants age 0 1 year and the tolerable ul which is set at an intake level.

Counseling points that relate to the information presented in this chapter are found in chapter 8 pages 157 158. This session focused on major research needs related to the setting of dietary reference intakes dris for infants and children. We estimated the usual nutrient intake of us children aged 6 23 mo examined in nhanes 2009 2012 and compared them to age specific dris as applicable.

Allen of the western human nutrition research center at the university of california davis who served on the standing committee on the scientific evaluation of dietary reference intakes and is a former food and nutrition board member addressed major. Nutrition assessment to determine an infant s nutritional needs and develop a nutrition care plan an. The general dietary recommendations of the aha for those aged 2 years and older stress a diet that primarily relies on fruits and vegetables whole grains low fat and nonfat dairy products beans fish and lean meat.

Dietary intakes of alpha linolenic acid ala docosahexaenoic acid dha iron vitamin d and iodine in some european countries are low in infants and young children living in europe and particular attention should be paid to ensuring an appropriate supply of ala dha iron vitamin d and iodine in infants and young children with inadequate. Please note that individual requirements may be higher or lower than the dris.