[Nutritional status of urban and rural schoolchildren in the Ukraine]

It has been established that nutrition of schoolchildren of a number of cities and villages of the Ukrainian republic is diversified as regards the assortment and has a high content of almost all food substances and energy. Deficiency of individual food substances is a consequence of wrong attitude of children to a number of foods, particularly to milk and dairy products, to fruit and vegetables. The majority of the children have been found to be physically fit and harmonically developed. Unbalance of foods has been demonstrated to lead to dysharmonic physical development, particularly to a high percentage of obese children. The measures have been defined, whose introduction will contribute to the improvement of schoolchildren's nutrition.