American Decades
"Recommended Daily Dietary Allowances, Revised 1958"
Table
By: Ruth M. Leverton
Date: 1959
Source: Leverton, Ruth M. "Recommended Allowances." Food: The Yearbook of Agriculture, 1959. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1959, 228–229.
About the Author: Ruth M. Leverton (1908–) received a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Nebraska and served as nutritionist at the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station before becoming associate director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Institute of Home Economics.
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