[Results of prophylactic vitamin administration of schoolchildren in Tbilisi]. / Itogi profilakticheskoi vitaminizatsii uchashchikhsia srednikh shkol Tbilisi.

The data are presented on providing with vitamins of schoolchildren in Tbilisi. Significant disorders were revealed in their providing with vitamins due to insufficient content of vitamins in daily food rations of the schoolchildren investigated. To correct their vitamin status an additional vitamin administration to schoolchildren with the multivitamin compound "Hexavitum" was conducted and its positive effect on the parameters of their physical and mental development was recorded.

[Actual nutrition and health of several groups of rural and urban population of the Republic of Georgia]. / Fakticheskoe pitanie i zdorov'e nekotorykh grupp sel'skogo i gorodskogo naseleniia Respubliki Gruzii.

The results of the study have shown that the nutrition of rural population is characterized by excessive consumption of bread and baked products, by high content of phosphorus, magnesium and iron, low content of animal proteins, vegetable oils, calcium, vitamins A, ascorbic acid and riboflavin. The incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and alimentary diseases in this group of population was rather high. The nutrition of students is characterized by excessive consumption of polysaccharides, vegetable oils, thiamine, niacin, ascorbic acid (in winter-spring period), and calcium. Diseases associated with nutrition disorders (obesity, hepatitis, cholecystitis, colitis) are most often recorded in this group of population.