Hygienic assessment of nutrition status of the population of the gerontological group

Among many environmental factors nutrition is paramount, permanently and exclusively affecting in multidisciplinary mode on the biological and social essence of the human body. Therefore, this article describes the results of the actual supply of people aged of 60-89 years taking into account their eating habits associated with age-related changes in the gastrointestinal tract and metabolism. The study involved 611 respondents aged of 60-89 years, including men (23.9%) and women — 76.1%, living in Astana, the average age accounts of 73 ± 0.41 years. The actual food was studied by frequency and a 24-hour simulation, recommended by the WHO for epidemiological studies. In assessing the adequacy of the supply of the reference values there were taken norms of physiological requirements in energy and nutrients for the population of gerontological groups of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the norms of consumption of micronutrients on a scale of FAO / WHO. The study of the actual nutrition of the category of persons of Astana showed the diet of elderly people to be consisted of foods containing mostly protein and animal fats and digestible carbohydrates, while two latters were characterized by an excess of saturated fatty acids, the lack of polyunsaturated fatty acids, a high level of simple consumption carbohydrates from refined foods such as sugar, refined cereals, flour and poly- micronutrient failure of the nutrition on vitamins (deficiency of vitamin D, A, B₁, E, C, biotin, folic and pantothenic acid) and minerals (calcium deficiency, potassium).