Several Points of View On Dietary ReferenceIntakes (2005) for Japanese and Tentative Dietary Goal of DietaryFiber for Preventing Life-style Related Diseases
Tsuneyuki OKU
Siebold University of Nagasaki, Graduate School ofHuman Health Science
Dietary reference intakes (2005) for Japanese wereestablished instead of 6th edition Dietary Allowance in November.2004. DRls were prepared as the objects of health promotion,primary prevention of lifestyie-related diseases and prevention ofdetriment'al effects by over-intake for individual and population.The tentative dietary goal of dietary fiber was 10g/1000 kcal forpreventing lifestyle-related diseases for Japanese. although thedefinition and analytical method of dietary fiber was differentfrom country to country. The definition of dietary fiber used inDRIs (2005) was the non-digestible food components which are notdigested by human digestive enzymes.