[The metabolic efficiency of baker's yeast in an atherogenic diet].

The effect of bakery compressed yeasts in the amounts of 6 and 12 g/100 g of the ration was studied in rats. It was revealed that 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the atherogenic ration produced a hypocholesterolemic effect. A negative effect of this amount of the yeasts was manifest in the slow growth of the rats' body mass and in an increased ratio of the kidney/body mass.

[Alimentary factors and cholecystopathy in rural inhabitants of the Latvian SSR].

The role of the chemical composition and regimen of nutrition in the development of cholecystopathy was studied in the rural population (aged 20-60) of the Latvian SSR. The right hypochondrium syndrome (RHS) served as a criterion for the cholecystopathy diagnosis. Mass-questioning (283) and questioning (6374) methods were used to register data on nutrition.

[Effect of a "green" diet on various clinical and metabolic indicators in patients with gastrointestinal diseases].

The authors recommend that patients with all chronic diseases of the alimentary organs, particularly with colonic function abnormalities should receive, with the exception of patients with disease exacerbations, salads from raw vegetables (100 g 3 times a day) before meal being a constituent part of the balanced diet. The diet containing salad from raw vegetables was received by 93 inpatients with different chronic diseases of the alimentary tract, gastroduodenal ulcer included. The patients did not exhibit intolerance provided the salad was made properly.

[Comparative characteristics of the effect of different dietary carbohydrates on atherogenesis].

The action of starch, saccharose, lactose and glucose in the atherogenic rations containing a physiological (5 per cent) or an elevated (21 per cent of the ration's mass) amount of fat on the lipids metabolism and complex carbohydrates, as well as on the morphological structures in the aorta and coronary vessels was studied. It is found that of all the carbohydrates studied the most marked metabolic disorders are produced by rations with saccharose and lactose. Morphological changes in the vessels were in evidence only in rats fed on rations with lactose or saccharose and with an elevated proportion of fat.