Nutrition, energy consumption and various health status indicators in women engaged in intellectual work
Smoliar, V.I.; Gracheva, L.F.; Dunaevskiĭ, G.A.
Voprosy Pitaniia 3: 33-35
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8833 PMID: 6474948 Document Number: 230150
A study was made of factual nutrition, energy consumption and the disease incidence among women teachers and research workers. The diets of these women were marked by excess caloric value (16-21% above normal) at the expense of high protein consumption (15-30% above normal), including animal proteins (20-40% above normal), total fats (14-40% above normal) and carbohydrates (11-22% above normal) and by the lack in the diet of vegetable fats, vitamins A and C, and calcium. Analysis of the disease incidence demonstrated that 16% of the women suffer from cardiovascular diseases, 5% from gastrointestinal diseases, 17% from overweight and 20% from obesity.