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| Recommended Dietary Allowances for Malaysian |
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| Recommended Dietary Allowances for Malaysian |
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| Source: Recommended Nutrient Intakes for Malaysia, A report of the Technical Working Group on Nutritional Guidelines, 2005. National Coordinating Committee on Food and Nutrition. Ministry of Health Malaysia. |
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| 1) All RNIs are for daily intakes |
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| 2) For all age categories, the ending ages extends till just before the beginning age of the subsequent category. For example, for the category 0-5 months, 5 months include up to 5.9 months |
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| a = no recommendations. Energy requirement depends on amount of breast milk produced |
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| b = no recommendations. Neonatal iron stores are sufficient to meet iron requirement for first 6 months in full - term infants. Premature infants and low birth weight infants require additional iron |
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| c = iron supplements in table form recommended for all pregnant women. In the non-anaemic pregnant woman, daily supplements of 100 mg iron given during second half of pregnancy are adequate. In anaemic women, higher doses are usually required. |
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| bf = breast fed |
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| ff = formula fed |
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| nm = non-menstruating |
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| m = menstruating |
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