Dietary Reference Intake Health Canada
2005 health canada dietary reference intakes tables with definitions and reference values for vitamins elements and macronutrients.
Dietary reference intake health canada. They include the average daily level that nearly all healthy people should take to meet the nutrient requirements. Armstrong in encyclopedia of food and health 2016. Return to footnote 27 referrer note. They also include the maximum level a healthy person could take of a nutrient before it could cause a health problem.
Dietary reference intake is a term for a set of nutrient intake recommendations for healthy people. Health canada will be making use of an expert advisory committee on dietary reference intakes to advise on potential intervention options which could include changes to dietary guidance policies related to the food supply or targeted education. Reference values for vitamins dietary reference intakes tables health canada 2005. Dietary reference intakes dris are a set of nutrient based reference values that provide quantitative recommendations by gender age life stage or physiological condition such as pregnancy or lactation for nutrient intakes of individuals living in the united states and canada.