Symposium overview. Dietary Reference Intakes: considerations for physical activity.
The following series of papers comprise a symposium on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), which are the new dietary recommendations for North Americans, that was presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. The process of developing the DRIs has been an enormous undertaking resulting, thus far, in 12 book-length reports spanning from 1997 to 2004. It was therefore timely to review the recommendations, describe the considerations for physical activity that went into setting the recommendations, and, where possible, indicate how the DRIs may be applied to athletes.
Whiting
Susan J
SJ
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. susan.whiting@usask.ca
D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D012015:Reference Standards