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Victor Herbert, MD, JD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center New York

JAMA. 1988;260(9):1243.

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In Reply.—

I could not disagree more with Mr Cerrato. No case can be made for any value of low-dose supplementation among healthy people. I did not dismiss the prosupplement rhetoric out of hand, as Mr Cerrato erroneously alleges, but out of the facts and the logic in the JAMA article I cited.¹ Misrepresented by Mr Cerrato as "Dr Herbert's contention," it in fact was the contention (and conclusion) of the entire group of nutrition professionals and members of the Council on Scientific Affairs who were the authors of the JAMA article¹ indicating that supplements were inappropriate except in the special situations stated.

Having served from 1979 through 1985 on the Food and Nutrition Board and its Committee on Dietary Allowances, which is responsible for the RDA, I can state unequivocally that Mr Cerrato misperceives how the RDA are determined. It is as follows: first, the "floor" is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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