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Suggested optimal daily nutrition allowances
The suggested optimal daily nutritional allowances (SONAS) provides
a better guideline to optimal health than the standard RDA. Developed
by Alex Schauss from an extensive study by Emanuel Cheraskin and W.
M. Ringsdorf Jr. of the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Over
a 15-year period comprehensive health evaluations were conducted on
13,500 male and female adults living in six regions of the United States,
including health status questionnaires, physical exams, laboratory measures,
and cardiac function and blood sugar regulation tests and nutrient intake
data on . Using all this data, Schauss correlated the intake of specific
nutrients with health status and tried to find a truly ideal level of
intake for each nutrient. Interestingly, more was not always better.
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