title: [Nutritional characteristics of persons in middle and old age in an area with a high life expectancy (the Abkhazian ASSR)].
abstract: Using questionnaires an investigation was made into the diet habits of 68 people aged 60-74 years, 64 people aged 75-89 years and 46 people of expectionally old age (90 years and older). This group of people lives in an agricultural region of the Abkhazian ASSR, a region with one of the highest life expectancy rates in the Soviet Union. It was found that the diet is characterized by a high lactovegetarian content, a well-balanced proportion of the most important nutrients, more or less perfect concurrence with the recommended diet for this age group and some particularities of the diet (amino acid composition, antioxidation protection) which possibly raise life expectancy, at least on experimental grounds. Alimentary risk factors could not be established.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D004032:Diet; D005504:Food Analysis; D005846:Georgia (Republic); D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
vernacular_title: Besonderheiten der Ernährung von Personen im höheren und hohen Lebensalter in einer Region mit hoher Lebenserwartung (Abchasische ASSR).