[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.

[Biomedical evaluation of the protein concentrate obtained from grape seeds]. / Mediko-biologicheskaia otsenka belkovogo kontsentrata iz semian vinograda.

The tolerance and assimilability of the protein concentrate from the seeds of grape contained in the diet in different amounts were studied under clinical conditions in 5 normal males aged from 30 to 45 years. The clinicobiochemical findings do not indicate that the protein concentrate has an adverse effect on the body of man.

[Secretory and morphological state of the stomach in alimentary obesity patients kept on a low-calorie diet]. / Sekretorno-morfologicheskoe sostoianie zheludka u bol'nykh alimentarnym ozhireniem, nakhodiashchikhsia na nizkokaloriinoi diete.

The authors studied gastric secretion in 117 persons with alimentary obesity of degree II and III along with the morphological picture of the gastric mucosa. The secretion was investigated by the fractional method, pH-metry and without tubage. In the majority of patients with alimentary obesity gastric secretion proved to be normal. In these patients a greater appetite was not associated with an intensified secretion. In all of the cases under examination the morphological picture revealed the presence of chronic gastritis.