[Characteristics of the diet and nutritional status of workers at various industrial enterprises of the Sverdlovsk Region].

Alteration of food patterns leads to changes in nutritional status, thus contributing to the development of non-communicable diseases accounting for over a half of all causes of death of the population of our country. Poor working conditions and occupational hazards play an important role in inducing metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases. The objective of joint studies conducted by two Healthy Nutrition Centers located in the cities of Yekaterinburg and Moscow was to assess the diet and nutritional status of workers at two industrial enterprises of the Sverdlovsk Region.

[Some aspects of the structure and organization of child nutrition in a number of regions Russia].

This research aims to assess catering arrangements and dietary patterns of children at preschool educational institution and at home. The article analyses catering arrange­ments for pre-school children (3-7-year-old) from Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky, Vladikavkaz and Krasnoyarsk. Based on menu production records provided by preschool educational institution, and family nutrition questionnaires we have examined their compliance with the nutritional physiological standards.

[MANAGEMENT OF THE MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FOR THE HEALTH OF THE POPULATION OF INDUSTRIALIZED CITIES OF THE SVERDLOVSK REGION].

In the Sverdlovsk region for the assessment and management of environment and health of the population over more than 10 years there is used a methodology for the assessment of the multiple environmental risk, allowing to identify priority routes of toxicants entering the body, to evaluate the possible dose-response relationships and elaborate targeted measures for their correction. In the article there is shown how are effective management decisions, elaborated on the base of the results of the assessment of multiple environmental risk to public health in cities of Pervouralsk and Revda of the Sverdlovsk region and directed to the mitigation of the exposure to chemical factors of the environment.

[Risk factors and development of metabolic disorders in workers of "Uralasbest" enterprise].

The authors evaluated possible increase in metabolic disorders risk in workers exposed to natural asbestos and to mixed asbestos stock dust, on the background of improper nutrition. Findings are excessive intake of food with high content of free sugar, saturated fatty acids and common salt (2.3-11.

[Impact of chlorination and ozonization on the total mutagenic activity of drinking water].

The total mutagenic activity of chemical pollution of the water taken from the Volga water reservoir was investigated after its treatment with chlorine and ozone. The toxicity of the water was absent after its ozone treatment. Mutagens were found to form after water chlorination.