HEALTHEat your veggies - and lots more of themA new report shows that greater amounts of what's good for you are needed to ensure adequate vitamin intake.By Stephanie Stapleton, amednews staff. Jan. 29, 2001. Washington -- Eating all your vegetables may not achieve the nutritional benefit once believed. A Jan. 9 Institute of Medicine report on dietary reference intakes found that, although still a good source of vitamin A, carotene-rich produce such as carrots, sweet potatoes and broccoli come up much shorter than expected. "New evidence shows that it takes twice as much of them to yield the same amount as previously thought," said Robert Russell, MD, professor of medicine and nutrition at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and chair of the panel that wrote the report. The report, the fifth in a series to update current recommended daily allowances, set both daily intake and upper intake levels for a series of micronutrients. Despite interest in vitamin supplements, most of these RDAs can be maintained through normal diet patterns, Dr. Russell said. The new levels are:
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