LIFESTYLE, NUTRITIONAL CULTURE, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS OF THE BODY IN CONDITIONS OF RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINATION

The article examines the issues of a healthy lifestyle, nutritional culture, and the physiological needs for essentialnutrients and energy for the population living in areas radioactively contaminated as a result of the Chornobyl disaster. The radioactive substances will remain in the environment for several more generations, influencing theirhealth. Providing acceptable living conditions for the population in such territories is a relevant problem thatrequires studying and analyzing the impact on public health, as well as developing ways to correct nutrition as themain source of toxicant intake and establishing the needs for essential nutrients and energy for individuals whoconstantly live under the influence of a complex of anthropogenic factors. Technogenic and radioactive contamination of the environment cause severe and irreversible pathological changes and genetic deviations in the humanbody. Living in such conditions leads not only to an increase in morbidity but also to premature aging, loss of workcapacity, and an increase in early deaths. Solving the problem of optimizing nutrition is one of the most importanttasks of modern preventive medicine at the state level to preserve and improve human health.