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What is the recommended daily intake of magnesium

BY Iris Wheatley 2020-08-01

   "Chinese Resident Dietary Reference Intake" recommends that the recommended daily magnesium intake for adults is 330 mg, while maternal and nursing mothers need to add another 40 mg per day. Under normal circumstances, magnesium intake from food will not be severely overdose, but if there is no doctor''s guidance, but private use of high magnesium health products for a long time, there are hidden worries.

   So what are the absorption of magnesium What about the relevant factors?

  ① When the protein in the diet is obviously lacking, it will cause a serious lack of magnesium absorption. This reminds us that unscientific vegetarian food is harmful!

  ② Alcohol, habitual diarrhea, kidney disease, and common diuretics of the elderly, the loss of magnesium in the body will increase.

  ③ Magnesium absorption is easily inhibited by oxalic acid, phosphoric acid, phytic acid, tannic acid, etc. in cereals and vegetables, as well as many minerals and trace elements.

  ④ "Chinese Dietary Reference Intake", it is recommended that the appropriate daily intake of dietary fiber for adults is 25 grams, too much dietary fiber in food will also affect the absorption of magnesium. Therefore, coarse grains are not as good as possible.

  ⑤ Some unreasonable cooking methods and carbonated drinks can also affect the absorption of magnesium, such as vinegar when frying green leafy vegetables, and often drinking carbonated drinks with high phosphate content. Chlorophyll in green leafy vegetables is rich in magnesium, but if vinegar is added during cooking, it is easy to make chlorophyll into pheophytin, which not only causes green leafy vegetables to become brownish yellow, but also makes magnesium easily lost and may be lost.

  ⑥ Amino acids and lactose in food can promote the absorption of magnesium, which points out a new direction for nutritional meals. However, if there is kidney disease, magnesium may be lost and increased.

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