[net.med] want US RDA, etc of everything

brianp@shark.UUCP (07/23/84)

Does anyone have pointers to sources (or preferably, one good source.
I bet it doesn't exist, though) which would describe the:


-3:	What low level will outright cripple you
		(and what happens)
-2:	What minimum you can drop to in a pinch
		(and effects of temporary shortage)
-1:	What mimimum you can get away with
		(and long term effects of going below this limit regularly)

-0:	US RDA
 0:	What current medicine recommends

 1:	How much you can safely ingest regularly 
		(long term effects of exceeding this limit regularly)
 2:	How much you can get away with for a limited period
		(and possible benifits of megadosing)
 3:	What limit is outright poison
		(and what happens to you)


		FOR:

Protein, carbohydrates, (sugars, others, etc), lipids, cholesterol,
vitamins, minerals, air, water, miscellaneous trace chemicals, and 
anything that I might have overlooked.
(in short, everything that people ingest, or need to ingest)

		Brian Peterson	{ucbvax, ihnp4, }  !tektronix!shark!brianp

dya@unc-c.UUCP (07/24/84)

References: shark.918


"AMA Drug Evaluations", 4th ed.
"The Phamocological Basis of Theraputics"
"Hazards of Medication"
"Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Substances"
"U.S. Pharmacoepia",8th ed
"The National Formulary"
"The United States Dispensatory" (I don't think this one is published anymore)
"Current Therapy"
"The Merck Index"

....are a few which came to mind.  A good discussion of hypervitaminosis
is given in Conn's Current Therapy, since OD'ing on vitamins seems to be
in these days.  The jury is still out on lipids and cholesterol, I'd suggest
"The New England Journal of Medicine", "The Lancet", "Cardiology", Archives
of Internal Medicine, etc.  (too new for textbooks.)

-dya-