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From:	Jeff Novick, MS, RD, LD, LN (novick.vegsource.com)
Subject:	Re: Nutrient recommendations
Date:	July 18, 2010 at 6:04 am PST

In Reply to: Nutrient recommendations posted by Nichole on July 14, 2010 at 6:47 am:

Here are some discussion threads on the topic..

http://drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=6805

http://drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6804

http://drmcdougall.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=13643

I have no problem with using the DRI/RDA as defaults.

Vitamin B12 is not in plant foods so I would uncheck it and same with Vitamin D as the main source is sunlight. Sodium should be set with 2300 as the upper limit and 350-500 as the minimum. I would set the limit on saturated fat to no more than 7% of your caloric target and set cholesterol at somewhere around 0 to 25 to 50 at the upper end. Trans fat should be zero.

While there is some evidence that calcium, zinc, vitamin e would be different on a low fat low sodium adequate protein plant based diet, you could still leave them to see how you do.

In Health
Jeff

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