Teaching a Man to Fish: An Evaluation of a Chronic Disease Management Men's Cooking Class.

There is limited data on the effects of cooking classes on male participants. The LiveWell Chronic Disease Management program's Men's Cooking Class (MCC) aims to help participants gain skills and confidence with food to manage chronic diseases more independently and improve their health. This paper evaluates whether, and how, the program is effective in achieving its goals.

[About the past and present of the Department of General and Soil Microbiology and ... something else].

A historical essay of creative path of collective of the Department of General and Soil Microbiology, founded in 1928, is presented. Two research schools have been formed for the past years: ecophysiology of soil microflora and geochemical activity of microorganisms. L.

[The homeostasis of the microbial communities in soils polluted by heavy metals].

Homeostatic potentialities of microbial communities in soils contaminated with heavy metals have been studied. To estimate the effect of contaminants on the soil microflora it was proposed to use the indices characterizing homeostasis of microbial community: microorganism survivability in contaminated soil and the period of restoration of their number, sensitivity to certain contaminants. In the model experiments on dark-grey podzolized soil it was shown that contamination with heavy metals (Cu2+, Cd2+, Sr2+, Pb2+, Hg2+) in the doses of 2 and 4 maximum permissible concentrations provokes a short-term inhibition of microorganisms development after which their number restores.