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Ch.5 Nutrition Basics - Part 1 of 2!
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Ch.5 Nutrition Basics - Part 1 of 2!
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Ch.5 Nutrition Basics / Introduction to Dietary Reference Intakes / Problem 6
Problem 6
Convert a protein prescription of 1.2 g/kg/day for a 70-kg adult into milligrams per day.
A
84,000 mg/day.
B
840 mg/day, because milligrams are always 100 times smaller than grams in dietary conversions for macronutrients.
C
8,400 mg/day, obtained by dividing the gram total by 10, which is correct for mass-to-mass conversion in nutritional contexts.
D
1,200 mg/day, derived from multiplying body weight by 1.2 without converting units, which is accurate for kilograms to milligrams conversion.
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