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BUMEDINST 10110.6
Nutrition Standards and Education
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05/28/2014

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The MRE may be consumed as the sole ration for to how many days?
Definition
30 Days
Term
What rations are designed for military personnel in a wide variety of operations, in widely varied settings, for limited time periods?
Definition
Operational and Restricted
Term
Who exercises DOD responsibilty for Nutritional and Education and will establish nutritional standards for meals served to military personnel subsusting under normal operating conditions and while under simulated or actual combat conditions.
Definition
Surgeon General, United States Army (USA)
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Operational ration menues will be designed so the menues, when averaged, meet the NSOR.  The calculated or assayed nutrient content of edible portions of food as offered for consumtion will be compared to NSOR.  Total Calories from fat should not exceed what percent of calories for these rations?
Definition
35%
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Restricted rations are nutritionally incomplete rations used in certain operational scenarios, such as long-range patrol and reconnaissance, when troops are required to subsist for short periods (up to how many days) carrying minimal weight?
Definition
10 Days
Term
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?
Definition
Potassium and Sodium
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Usually, no MDRI is established if there is no what for a given nutrient?
Definition
RDA or DRI
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The MDRIs do not reflect what needs of pregnant or lactating military women nor of those individuals requiring nutrition therapy for conditions such as illness, injury, infection, chronic disease, and trauma?
Definition
Nutritional needs
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Which Technical Note documents the basis for the MDRIs?
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TN-00/10
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Some operational rations are designed for special situations.  These rations provide for the increased nutritional requirments imposed by exposures to an extreme environment.  This includes which meal?
Definition
Cold Weather
Term
The MDRIs are what type of estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for the healthy military population?
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Quantitative
Term
What are intended for the use by personnel involved in menu development, menu evalution, nutrition education, nutrition research, and food research and development?
Definition
MDRIs
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Who will evaluate planned menus for compliance with the principles of Food Guide Phramid and Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
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Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics (DCSLOG)
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The GP-I cantains how many calories?
Definition
1447
Term
The Food Packet, Survival, Abandon Ship ration and the Food Packet, Survival, Aircraft/Life Raft ration both contain approximately how many calories, and are strickly short-term survival rations?
Definition
300
Term
The most recent release of the United States Department of Agriculture Nutrient Database for Standard reference for what?
Definition
Nutrient composition
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Menu design will incorporate principles of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (U.S. Department of Agriculture and Health and Human Services) and the Food Guide Pyrimid (U.S. Department of Agriculture).  The MDRIs will be met, when averaged, over a period of how long?
Definition
5 to 10 day period
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Certain conditions have special nutrition requirments not covered in the regulation.  What would be an example of one of these conditions?
Definition
When military member operate in prtective clothing for prolonged periods of time
Term
Which rations include the Food Packet, Survival, General Purpose, Improved (GP-I) ration; the Food Packet, Survival, Abandon Ship ration, and the Food Packet, Survival, Aircraft/Life Raft ration?
Definition
Survival rations
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The NSORs are based on the MDRIs and are designed to support the special nutritional requirements for various actual or simulated situations of what type?
Definition
Combat situations
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What should serve as models to help military members, family members, and DOD employees meet recommended nutritional guidelines?
Definition
DOD instillation and hospital dining facilities
Term
What type of rations include the individual ration (Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE)) and group feeding rations (T-rations, Unitized B rations, and Unitized Group Rations (UGR-A and UGR-H&S (heat and serve)), and are designed to be nutritionally adequate?
Definition
Operational rations
Term
The current what are adapted from the FNB's Recommended Dietary Allowances, tenth revised edition, 1989?
Definition
MDRIs
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The nutritional standards for operational rations do not apply to what type of rations?
Definition
Restrictive and survival
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Who will establish and implement mechanisms to ensure menus meet nutritional standards
Definition
Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command, United States Navy (USN)
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