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Recommended Daily Allowance, or RDA, was introduced in the USA during The second world war so that everyone understood the best ways to keep themselves healthy when supplies were being rationed.

The system is still used today. In the USA the recommendations now come from the National Academy of Sciences, which monitors and updates its findings at intervals.

The RDA system is used in numerous other countries; though