Mertz W
U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, MD 20705.
J Nutr. 1987 Nov;117(11):1811-3. doi: 10.1093/jn/117.11.1811.
Balance studies are inadequate tools to determine human requirements for minerals and trace elements. At best, they estimate the amount of an element in a specified diet that maintains the existing pool size of the test subject. The relevance of pool size to health remains to be established by different and independent means.
平衡研究并非确定人体对矿物质和微量元素需求的充分工具。充其量,它们只能估计特定饮食中维持受试对象现有储备量的某一元素的含量。储备量与健康之间的相关性仍有待通过不同的独立方法来确定。