The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So the two numbers that the committees come up with, one is the EAR, estimated average requirement, and that's some distribution in the population of the vitamin or the mineral. And the other is the RDA, which is set at two standard deviations above that. That's for the population.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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