[Nutrition of the population of Kazakhstan]

Basic results of research on the problem of nutrition in Kazakhstan over the whole period of the Soviet system are reported. In the Republic main attention was focussed on the study of the actual dietary pattern of the population in different geographic zones. The results of investigations served as a background to proposals aimed at rationalizing the dietary for the population of Kazakhstan, at working out standard rates of the foodstuffs consumption, approved by the State Planning Commission of the Kazakh SSR back in 1973. The principal objectives for further research work in the Republic are outlined.