Dietary Reference Intakes Are Values That Are Appropriate To Use For Planning And Assessing Diets

This chapter describes the framework as it applies to planning for groups that are homogeneous in regard to life stage and gender while chapter 4 presents an approach to planning for heterogeneous groups.

Dietary reference intakes are values that are appropriate to use for planning and assessing diets. The first report provided guidance on appropriate methods for using dris in dietary assessment. The dietary reference intakes dris include four sets of nutrient reference values created by the institute of medicine to be used for assessing and planning diets of individuals and groups. 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. Since the publication of the dri reports 1997 2004 the reference intake levels have been used for various purposes.

Using the information from these reports this newest volume in the dri series focuses on how the dris and the science for each nutrient in the dri reports can be used to develop current and appropriate reference values for nutrition. The dietary reference intakes dris are quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for apparently healthy people. The dris offer quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets. The framework for group planning presented in this chapter focuses on the distribution of usual nutrient intakes as the basis for planning.

This volume is the second of two reports in the dri series aimed at providing specific guidance on the appropriate uses of the dris. The dris offer quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets. Since 1997 the institute of medicine has issued a series of nutrient reference values that are collectively termed dietary reference intakes dris.