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How could you possibly know this? Where is this comprehensive prescient list of "all the nutrients required for an adult human"?

• Retric 11y ago
  It's not black magic, NASA for example has specified exactly what someone eats over long periods so they needed to study this. Historically, Military's have also been interested in this and have developed satisfactory minimum standards ex: http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r40_25.pdf http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r40_25.pdf That does not mean such things are Ideal just that they work acceptably well for young healthy people.
  • chillwaves 11y ago
    Nutritional sciences are far from comprehensive. It's only within the last 50 or so years that we even began to understand the importance of micronutrients to your diet. You could definitely pull a paper from the 1940s that showed researches thought they understand what humans need from a nutrition point of view -- and it would be very, very wrong.
• baddox 11y ago
  Well, how could anyone possibly know that the diet of traditional food they eat is any better?
• Tiquor 11y ago
  It's called research. There are good well researched standards of diet for use by prisons, the military and space exploration that have enough real world use to have some level of verification.