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"Kelp and alaria have very high amounts of iodine; 100 grams of kelp have approximately ten times the estimated rda of iodine. One hundred grams of alaria and nori have approximately 8487 and 4266 IU of vitamin A. One hundred grams of most of the sea vegetables have about one-third the rda of the B vitamins, one-tenth the rda of vitamin C, and about one-third the rda of vitamin E. As pointed out earlier, these sea vegetables also contain chelating agents that are effective for protection against the absorption of radioactive particles." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"The FDA even petitioned to replace the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) on labels to Reference Daily Intake (RDI); RDI requirements are less than the rda. U.S. RDAs are extremely misleading because they are based on the concept of single-nutrient diseases, such as scurvy and rickets—RDAs are not based on the amount of nutrients needed to maintain optimum health. Since the medical establishment has always maintained that to exceed the RDAs is potentially dangerous, many consumers mistakingly assume that the rda for a nutrient is sufficient for good health." - Elaine Feuer, Innocent Casualties : The FDA's War Against Humanity (Get the book.)

"Most of us are familiar with the rda from our childhood days of reading the back of our cereal boxes during breakfast time. What most people don't understand is that the authors of the rda only knew what degree of deprivation caused illness. The USDA didn't really know the minimum of what you could take and still be healthy. For instance, pellagra, a condition caused by a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3) that plagued the American South in the first part of the twentieth century, was associated with mental dullness, lethargy, and other symptoms." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The amount that it took to make the disease go away was the MDR. The rda (Recommended Daily Allowance) was then established as a small percentage (to allow a safety margin) above the MDR. Recently, rda was replaced by the term DV (Daily Value), and even more recently by the term RDI (Recommended Dietary Intake). The problem with this whole approach is that it deals only with short-term deficiencies. What are the long term implications (10, 20, 30 years down the line) of nutritional deficiency?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "And what makes it all even more ludicrous, is that as pathetically low as the RDA/DV/RDI is, a USDA government survey of 21,500 people found that not one single person consumed 100% of the US. rda, from the foods they ate. 'As I've already mentioned, there are some 400 carotenoids that have been identified. Each day there are new phytochemicals, not to mention whole new classes of phytochemicals, being identified. And new antioxidants are being identified, almost daily it seems." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Based on the fact that the rda analysis of vitamin requirements is founded on a bogus standard related to a young, healthy male and an estimate that started out at least double the necessary requirement, the rda nutritional requirements are at least four times the actual minimum amount of vitamins and minerals needed and probably much, much more." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"RDA for vitamin A. Carrots are also a good source of fiber, manganese, niacin, potassium, vitamin B6, and vitamin C. Home Remedies Long ago, Greeks used carrots to cure stomach ailments and Romans ate carrots to improve their love life. Carrots also have other traditional "roots": During Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, for example, carrots are served in the shape of coins, as a symbol of future prosperity. Throw Me a Lifesaver! HEART DISEASE: Multiple studies examined the association between high-carotenoid diets and reduced risk of heart disease." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Where you get it: Wheat germ, pork, whole and enriched grains, dried beans, seeds and nuts. RDA: Between 1.1 to 1.5 mg for adults. Vitamin B-2 (a.k.a. Riboflavin) What it's good for: Releases energy, keeps red blood cells healthy, and makes hormones. Where you get it: Dairy products, meats, poultry, whole and enriched grains, and green vegetables such as broccoli, turnip greens, aspargus and spinach. Quick Tip: High doses of B-2 may help prevent migraine headaches. RDA: Between 1.3 to 1.7 mg for adults. Vitamin B-3 (a.k." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"What most people don't understand is that the authors of the rda only knew what degree of deprivation caused illness. The USDA didn't really know the minimum of what you could take and still be healthy. For instance, pellagra, a condition caused by a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3) that plagued the American South in the first part of the twentieth century, was associated with mental dullness, lethargy, and other symptoms. It was related to the southern diet of fat-back, corn bread and molasses." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"RDA.1 These studies indicate the that chance of consuming a diet meeting the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for all nutrients is extremely unlikely for most Americans. In other words, while it is theoretically possible that a healthy individual can get all the nutrition he or she needs from foods, most Americans do not even come close. In an effort to increase their intake of essential nutrients, many Americans look to vitamin and mineral supplements. Current estimates are that more than 70 percent of Americans now regularly take vitamin or mineral supplements.2" - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI): Ajoint collaboration with Canada and the US, DRIs are revised recommendations for vitamins and minerals from the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which will gradually replace the Recommended Dietary Allowances or rda guidelines. DRIs are being developed for vitamins and minerals that currently have no RDAs. Duodenum: In anatomy of the digestive system, the duodenum is a hollow jointed tube connecting the stomach to the jejunum." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"He writes: I call them the Ridiculous Dietary Arbitraries. The rda is not a scientifically robust score for a nutrient. It's the level that prevents over deficiency, and if you take the case of vitamin C, it started at 30mg, then went to 45mg, then 60mg, while in the US it's 85mg. Now, 30mg does prevent scurvy, but scientists on the panels who decide RDAs are gradually thinking that more might be better. We [the ION] work from what is arguably the most scientific position, which is to ask, 'What is the optimal intake of a nutrient?" - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Ten percent of individuals don't even consume half the rda!) Emily Ho, Ph.D., a research scientist at Linus Pauling Institute of Oregon State University, estimates that zinc deficiency affects more than two billion people worldwide, about one-third of the entire planet. Liping Huang, a geneticist at the ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center at Davis, California, notes that "mild zinc deficiency may exist in the United States among otherwise healthy infants, toddlers, preschool children, pregnant and lac-tating women, and seniors." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Experts in nutrition and aging suggest a three-pill strategy that touches most of the important bases: • A multivitamin that contains at least 100% (and up to 200% is okay) of the rda amounts of the B vitamins (including B-6), beta carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin D. • Vitamin E that contains 100 to 400 IU, a safe dosage. • Calcium, which—in addition to keeping bones strong—may have anticancer properties, according to recent research. One 600- to 700-mg supplement a day is usually sufficient, in addition to eating yogurt and plenty of leafy greens." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"In fact, they consume about 70 times the rda of calcium, 22 times the rda of magnesium, and 18 times the rda of potassium, to name just a few of their abundant dietary nutrients.14 All of these minerals are highly alkalizing to the body and are therefore preventive to disease. Barefoot and Reich suggest that a change in diet alone can, over time, bring a person's body back into correct pH balance. But if a person has cancer, they suggest that the person will want to bring about their pH re-balancing as quickly as possible —and that requires high doses of certain supplements." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"They reported that if all North American women were to eat more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C, averaging at least 400 mg per day (more than six times the rda), the "risk...in the population of postmenopausal women in North America would be reduced by 16 percent." Hundreds of articles and research studies extolling the cancer benefits gleaned from vitamin C have been published and are readily available via the internet and in countless magazines and publications." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The estimated Paleolithic intake of vitamin Bj is 5 mg, compared to an rda range of 1.3?.7 mg. Paleolithic intake of vitamin C was about 439 mg daily, compared with an rda of 60 mg and an estimated current intake of 77-109 mg daily. Likewise, Paleolithic intake of vitamin E was 28 international units (IU), compared with an rda of 15 IU and current intake of 7-10 IU daily. Paleolithic intake of zinc was about 43 mg daily, roughly three times higher than today's intake and the rda level." - Jack Challem, Burton Berkson, Melissa Diane Smith, Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance (Get the book.)

"The rda, or the recommended daily allowance, is another myth that arose from the wrong model of health and disease. The rda system was based on what was needed to prevent the deficiencies associated with disease, rather than on a model to create health. Today, most people believe that meeting the rda will help them achieve health. The reality is that just meeting the rda will only stop you from coming down with a dreaded nutritional disease like scurvy or rickets. Other institutions have driven nutritional myths as well: the insurance business, the drug industry, hospitals, the HMOs, and so on." - Mark Hyman, M.D., Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life (Get the book.) "Industry still has a great deal to say about what the USDA says. The rda, or the recommended daily allowance, is another myth that arose from the wrong model of health and disease. The rda system was based on what was needed to prevent the deficiencies associated with disease, rather than on a model to create health. Today, most people believe that meeting the rda will help them achieve health. The reality is that just meeting the rda will only stop you from coming down with a dreaded nutritional disease like scurvy or rickets." - Mark Hyman, M.D., Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life (Get the book.)

"The rda for protein is too high to begin with because it is based on the essential amino acid needs of the fast-growing animal such as the rat, and the scientists' premises and theories are erroneous. However, modern life seems to be packed full of stresses, worries, anxieties, emergency situations, emotional hurts and problems to solve. Eating sufficient calories in the form of fruit and vegetables, without a concentrated protein source such as nuts and seeds, may provide for all the essential amino acids and protein needed under ideal conditions." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Vitamin E is nontoxic at less than 66 times the rda. Tolerable upper intake level of 1000 IU daily prevents excess bleeding. Deficiency: one-third of adults get too little to prevent cardiovascular disease. Healthy food sources: almonds, sunflower seeds, and cold-pressed oils. Degradation: can be oxidized during food preparation or storage. Principal forms in the body: alpha-tocopherol and gamma-tocopherol. Summary for Vitamin K Main functions: prevents excess bleeding and assists in bone mineralization. Daily Recommended Intake: men, 120 meg; women, 90 meg. Vitamin K is nontoxic." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "The rda for zinc for adult men is: (a) (b) (c) (d) 11 mg. 11 meg. 1.1 mg. 1.1 meg. 15. Excess zinc: (a) Can cause a copper deficiency. (b) Can reduce the effectiveness of superoxide dismutase. (c) Can result from the use of zinc lozenges. (d) All of the above. 16. The most active hormone made from iodine is: (a) Adrenaline. (b) Thyroxine (T4). (c) Triiodothyronine (T3). (d) Serotonin. 17. Which gland(s) control thyroid hormone production? (a) Hypothalamus. (b) Pituitary. (c) Both (a) and (b). (d) Neither (a) nor (b). 18." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Summary for Iron Main functions: transportation of oxygen and energy metabolism. RDA: adults, 7 to 18 mg; pregnant women, 27 mg. Toxicity: only with a genetic disorder. Digestive discomfort may occur if taken on an empty stomach. Tolerable upper intake level is set at 45 mg. 40 mg for ages under 14. Deficiency can cause fatigue and anemia. Deficiency is common. Sources: meat, fish, poultry, green leafy vegetables, dried fruit, blackstrap molasses, nuts and seeds, and fortified grains. Forms in the body: ferritin, transferrin, hemosiderin." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Niacin is also subject to losses during processing and storage, as seen in Figure 1-10. The rda for niacin is 16 mg for men and 14 mg for women. For the nicotinic acid form of niacin, the upper limit to avoid flushing is 35 mg per day. Niacin used in supplements and as food fortification is usually in the form of nicotinamide (niacinamide), which has no flushing effect. Nicotinic acid (niacin) is also available as a supplement, but should be kept to small doses to avoid flushing." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Recently, rda was replaced by the term DV (Daily Value), and even more recently by the term RDI (Recommended Dietary Intake). The problem with this whole approach is that it deals only with short-term deficiencies. What are the long term implications (10, 20, 30 years down the line) of nutritional deficiency? The answer is now becoming apparent for all but the blind to see: an epidemic of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Originally, the rda was designed to promote basic dietary completeness, and the amounts indicated as RDAs were considered the minimum amount necessary to prevent illness. For many years now, RDAs have been criticized by the medical community as being a host of meaningless numbers. As more and more people have become proactive in dealing with their health, the Food and Nutrition Board has recognized that RDAs have been becoming less pertinent in people's lives." - Brenda Adderly, The Complete Guide to Nutritional Supplements: Everything You Need to Make Informed Choices for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"One hundred grams of kelp has approximately ten times the estimated rda. One hundred grams of alaria and nori have approximately 8487 and 4266 iu of vitamin A per hundred grams. One hundred grams of most of the sea vegetables has about one-third the rda of the B vitamins, one-tenth the rda of vitamin C, and about one-third the rda of vitamin E. As pointed out earlier, these sea vegetables also contain chelating agents that are effective for protection against the absorption of radioactive particles. Some people must acquire a taste for sea vegetables." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Conscious Eating (Get the book.)

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