The minimum daily adult - the right metrics and the wrong metrics
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Introduction Without realizing it, we have various rules-ofthumb (ROT) metrics we use every day. The problem is – what do they actually mean? Are they useful to you? Every day when you get up, you encounter one with your daily vitamin, representing the MDR – minimum daily requirements. Dave Barry sheds light on the validity of these metrics by naming vitamins as “little pills named A, B, C, D, E and K that the government recommends you have certain amounts of. These recommendations are based on the requirements of the Minimum Daily Adult, a truly pathetic individual that the government keeps in this special facility in Washington, D.C. where he is fed things like ‘riboflavin.’" In fact, for women over 50, calcium requirements are 4x the minimum, unless you prefer to be the Minimum Daily Adult. Would the Average
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