ABSTRACT
The high environmental levels of foreign chemical substances and the inadequate intake of both essential nutrients, such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and micronutrients, such as minerals, vitamins, and trace elements, in half of the examined children and adolescents promoted a rise in the incidence of chronic noncommunicable diseases in 2005-2009 particularly in the districts of Dmitrovskv, Khovrino where the morbidity rates were 1.5-2 times higher than those in the whole area.
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Adolescent Development , Child Development , Environmental Pollutants/adverse effects , Health Status , Hygiene , Malnutrition/physiopathology , Adolescent , Adolescent Development/drug effects , Adolescent Development/physiology , Child , Child Development/drug effects , Child Development/physiology , Chronic Disease , Environmental Pollutants/analysis , Humans , Malnutrition/epidemiology , Morbidity , Moscow/epidemiology , Nutritional Status/physiologyABSTRACT
This comprehensive experimental study had the objective to determine the optimum ratio of calcium and vitamin D used as additives in food compositions and provide an experimentally-based rationale for the use of new functional dairy products and evaluation of their nutritional value. Experimental medico-biological assessment was conducted using growing male Wistar rats by balance and biochemical methods. It was shown that the calcium/vitamin D ratio in foodstuffs determines their functional efficiency. High nutritive and biological value was documented for some new cottage cheese products rich in calcium (240 mg%) and vitamin D (1 mg%). Results of the study were used to develop guidelines for the enrichment of various food compositions with calcium and vitamin D and substantiate methods for the assessment of their real functional effectiveness.
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Calcium, Dietary , Cheese , Food, Fortified , Functional Food , Malondialdehyde/blood , Vitamin D , Animals , Biomarkers , Calcification, Physiologic/drug effects , Calcium, Dietary/administration & dosage , Calcium, Dietary/metabolism , Cheese/analysis , Cheese/standards , Device Approval , Food, Formulated/analysis , Food, Formulated/standards , Food, Fortified/analysis , Food, Fortified/standards , Functional Food/analysis , Functional Food/standards , Humans , Male , Monitoring, Physiologic , Nutrition Therapy/methods , Nutritional Requirements , Nutritive Value , Rats , Rats, Wistar , Vitamin D/administration & dosage , Vitamin D/metabolismABSTRACT
The paper analyzes the actual nutrition in 301 schoolchildren (142 children and 159 adolescents), the state of ambient air and the health status of the population in 5 districts of the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. Non-balanced diets and ambient air pollution have been ascertained to negatively affect human health.
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Air Pollution , Health Status , Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Child , Humans , Industry , Russia , Surveys and Questionnaires , Urban PopulationABSTRACT
Low level of provision of various population groups with animal proteins, poor choice of foodstuffs for common and dietetic use, inefficiency of meat and milk processing, loss of foodstuff quality as a result of industrial production determine the range of priority problems to be solved by specialists in nutrition hygiene. One of the main and most rapid approaches to solution of these problems is more rational utilization of the foodstuff potential created in the country for nutrition, but the chemical, sensory, and organoleptic properties of the manufactured foodstuffs do not always ensure their high biological value. Department of Hygiene of Nutrition, I. M. Setchenov Moscow Medical Academy, for many years has been engaged in development of biomedical rationale for effective use of raw material and processing protocols for preparation of common and dietetic food for various population groups. Special attention was paid to the effects of food-stuffs prepared by new technologies and recipes on metabolism. The most important results are summed up in this review.
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Food Industry/trends , Food Inspection/standards , Food Services/organization & administration , Food/standards , Hygiene/standards , Food Inspection/trends , HumansABSTRACT
Therapeutic effectivity of new extrusion products "Jantar" have been studied. These products include 10% of dietary fiber gumarabic. It was shown that consumption of products "Jantar" caused a 18.1, 23.2, 16 and 16.3% decrease in the levels of total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, tryglicerols and apoprotein B respectively. A decreasing body mass index and hypoglycamic effect also have been observed. Thus, extrusion products "Jantar" may be recommended for diet therapy of hypercholesterolemia, obesity and diabetus melitus.
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Cholesterol/blood , Dietary Fiber/therapeutic use , Hypercholesterolemia/diet therapy , Adult , Aged , Apolipoproteins B/blood , Body Mass Index , Cholesterol, LDL/blood , Female , Humans , Hypercholesterolemia/blood , Longitudinal Studies , Male , Middle Aged , Triglycerides/bloodSubject(s)
Dietary Proteins , Food-Processing Industry , Amino Acids , Dairy Products , Fish Products , Meat ProductsABSTRACT
Effect of alimentary calcium on cellular immunity of rats with allergic dermatitis was studied. Calcium-deficient rations were found to be conducive to decrease of the metabolic activity of rat lymphocytes, whereas normal or increased intake of calcium provided a sufficiently high level of specific response.
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Calcium, Dietary/pharmacology , Calcium/deficiency , Dermatitis, Contact/immunology , Animals , Immunity, Cellular , Leukocytes/immunology , Male , Neutrophils/immunology , RatsABSTRACT
Nutritive value and protective efficiency of new foodstuffs for children were studied. Addition to the nutrition of sodium alginate and egg-shell powder renders it prophylactic properties under conditions of cesium-137 intake.
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Energy Intake , Environmental Exposure , Food, Fortified/analysis , Radiation Injuries, Experimental/prevention & control , Radiation Injuries/prevention & control , Radiation-Protective Agents/administration & dosage , Radioactive Hazard Release , Radioactive Pollutants/adverse effects , Animals , Child , Humans , Male , Nutritive Value , Rats , UkraineABSTRACT
Calcium deficit in ration of rats considerable reduced radioprotective potential of animals. The enrichment of ration for calcium, potassium, and iron improved radioprotection by changing velocity of accumulation and excretion of cesium.
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Calcium, Dietary/administration & dosage , Cesium Radioisotopes/toxicity , Food, Fortified , Iron/administration & dosage , Potassium, Dietary/administration & dosage , Radiation Injuries, Experimental/diet therapy , Animals , Cesium Radioisotopes/metabolism , Male , Models, Biological , Radiation Injuries, Experimental/etiology , Radiation Injuries, Experimental/metabolism , Radiation Injuries, Experimental/prevention & control , Radiation Protection/methods , RatsABSTRACT
Egg-shell powder was added to cosmetics in quantity up to 10%. Such cosmetics did not irritate and sensitize the skin, and had a positive influence on allergologic status of animals.
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Cosmetics/analysis , Dermatitis, Allergic Contact/prevention & control , Egg Shell , Animals , Cosmetics/adverse effects , Cosmetics/toxicity , Dermatitis, Allergic Contact/etiology , Humans , Hygiene , Male , Models, Biological , Powders , RatsABSTRACT
According to experimental data, shortage of calcium in diet of experimental animals in conditions of sensitization leads to disturbances in intestinal microflora. Consequently calcium is an important factor of organism adaptation to antigenic loading.
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Calcium, Dietary/administration & dosage , Dermatitis, Allergic Contact/diet therapy , Enterobacter/drug effects , Food, Fortified , Intestinal Diseases/diet therapy , Animals , Dermatitis, Allergic Contact/microbiology , Enterobacter/isolation & purification , Intestinal Diseases/microbiology , Male , RatsABSTRACT
Nutrition of 2 children groups aged 9 to 10 years and 14 to 15 years in the zone of Chernobyl accident was studied during 1 year in spring, summer and autumn with the help of questionnaires. Nutrition of children was appreciated as unsatisfactory. Structure of foodstuffs and their quantity are insufficient. Recommendations for improvement of children nutrition were developed.
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Accidents , Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Nuclear Reactors , Nutrition Surveys , Adolescent , Child , Humans , UkraineABSTRACT
Nutrition of population living on the territory polluted after the Chernobyl accident is unsatisfactory. Structure of nutrition is inadequate, vitamin quantity insufficient. Recommendations on improvement of population nutrition are given.
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Energy Intake , Environmental Pollution , Feeding Behavior , Nutritional Status , Radioactive Pollutants , Accidents, Occupational , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Nuclear Energy , RussiaABSTRACT
The influence of connective tissue on the biological value of meat products, manufactured from hashed meat, was studied in experiments on growing rats. It was shown that collagen level increase from 6.1 to 14.5% of the total amount of meat proteins improved the growth-mass characteristics of the animals. The actual biological value and the absolute protein utilization had a tendency to lowering, although the difference was not statistically significant. At the same time the effectiveness of tissue protein biosynthesis was not lowered. A conclusion has been made that the results of animal experiments correlate with the clinical data on the positive effect of the increase up to 15% (by protein) of collagen content on the anabolic action of hashed meat protein in humans. A further increase of the connective tissue amount leads to its diminished biological value.
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Collagen/pharmacology , Dietary Proteins/pharmacology , Meat Products , Animals , Male , Nutritive Value , Rats , Rats, Inbred StrainsABSTRACT
The effect of food fibres of wheat bran, beet pectin and methylcellulose on the biological value of meat proteins has been studied in experiments on the growing rats. It has been shown, that up to 1% on food fibres of wheat bran and up to 0.5% of pectin and methylcellulose can be added to meat products without spoiling their qualitative indices. Higher levels of these substances cause the reduction of the biological value of meat products.