Health and Nutrition Letter

Latest Nutrients Report Card Shows Some Failing Grades

January 2006

Abstract

If you’re a typical American eater, you’re probably getting plenty of carbohydrates, but not enough vitamin A, C and E and magnesium. And you’re still getting too much salt. (The report did not measure vitamin D intake, though other studies have found that Americans don’t get enough D, either.)

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