Actual characteristics of nutrition of the population in Odessa region

Kovalchuk L. Y., Melnyk K. S., Mykhaylenko V. L., Badiuk N. S. Actual characteristics of nutrition of the population in Odessa region. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2016;6(11):731-740. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.228325 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4132 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 755 (23.12.2015). 755 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author (s) 2016; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.11.2016. Revised 22.11.2016. Accepted: 30.11.2016. Actual characteristics of nutrition of the population in Odessa region L. Y. Kovalchuk, K. S. Melnyk, V. L. Mykhaylenko, *N. S. Badiuk Odessa National Medical University, Odessa, Ukraine *Ukrainian Research Institute of Transport Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Summary Study of hygiene and environmental problems in the Odessa region should be aimed at the preservation of public health by minimizing the negative impact of environmental factors. Nutrition is one of the most important factors. Actual direction of modern medical science is the study of dietary intake and nutritional status of specific population groups to establish correlation between nutrition and health.Odessaregion differs significantly from other regions ofUkraineon the national population structure. The features of the modern structu