BUMED 10110.6 Nutrition Sandards & Edu Flashcards
Who exercises DOD responsibility for nutritional standards and education and will establish nutritional standards for meals served to military personnel subsisting under normal operation conditions and while under simulated or actual combat conditions?
The Surgeon General, United States Army (USA)
BUMEDINST 10110.6
Nutrition Standards and Education
Who will evaluate planned menus for compliance with the principles of food guide pyramid and dietary guidelines for America?
The Deputy Chief Of Staff for Logistics (DCSLOG), USA
Who will establish and implement mechanisms to ensure menus meet nutritional standards?
The Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command, Inited States Navy( USN)
The current what are adapted from the FNBs Fecommended Dietary Allowances, tenth revised edition, 1989?
MDRIs
What technical note documents the basis for the MDRIs?
TN-00/10
What are intended for use by personnel involved in menu development, menu evaluation, nutrition education, nutrition research, and food research and development?
MDRIs
The MDRIs are what type of estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and passing and assessing diets for the healthy military population?
Quantitative
The MDRIs do not reflect what needs of pregnant or lactating military women nor of those individuals requiring medical nutrition therapy for conditions such as illness, injury, infection, chronic disease, and trauma?
Nutritional needs
Certain conditions have special nutritional requirements not covered in this regulation. What would be an example of one of those conditions ?
When military members operate in protective clothing for prolonged periods of time
Usually, no MDRI is established if there is no what for a given nutrient?
RDA or DRI
Usually, no MDRI is established if there is no RDA or DRI for a given nutrient. Exceptions will be approved by TSG, DA. Two approved exceptions in this regulation are for what?
Potassium and sodium
What should serve as models to help military members, family members, and DoD employees meet recommended nutritional guidelines?
DOD into talkathon and hospital dining facilities
Menu design will incorporate principals of the dietary guidelines for Americans (Dept of Agriculture and health and human services) and food Guide Pyramid (US Dept of Agriculture). The MDRIs will be met, when averaged, over a period of how long?
5 to 10 day period
The most recent release of the U.S. Dept of agriculture nutrient database for standard reference will be used as the standard reference for what?
Nutrient composition
What rations are designated for military personnel in a wide variety of operations, in widely varied settings, for limited time periods?
Operational and restricted
The NSORs are based on the MDRIs and are designated to support the special nutritional requirements for various actual or simulated situations of what type?
Combat situations
What type of rations include the individual ration( MRE) and group feeding rations(T-Rations, unitized B ration, and United group rations) and are designated to be nutritionally adequate?
Operational rations
Operational ration menus will be designed so the menus, when average, meet the NSOR. The calculated or assayed nutrient content of edible portions of food as offered for consumption will be compared to the NSOR. Total calories from fat should not exceed what percent of calories for these rations?
35%
The MRE may be consumed as the sole ration for up to how many days?
21