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calculate the daily amount of vitamin C in mg per kg of body weight ,needed by a baby girl aged about 6 months, weighing 7.4kgis this more or less than the amount, also in mg per kg of body weight, needed by the girls mother.weighing 74kg? why might this be ?

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Recommendations for vitamin C intake have been set by national agency as follows:

40 mg per day: Food Standards Agency (UK)

Baby girl= 7.4 x 40 =296 mg per day.

Mother = 74 x 40=2960 mg per day

Check this link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C

Edited by dr_amitmunjal on August 20 2006 at 8:44 AM

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