title: [Nutrition for children of puberty age in boarding houses in Tbilisi].
abstract: Micronutrients are nutrients required by humans throughout life in small quantities to orchestrate a whole range of physiological functions, but which the human body itself cannot produce. The most important micronutrients are iron, zinc and iodine. Micro elements are essential part of nutrition. Among them particular importance is attached to those micro elements that are comparatively in low quantity in the food (such as iron, iodine). Accordingly occurrence of the iodine deficiency, iron deficiency in adolescents requires particular attention so that they are duly prevented. Monitoring of the nutrition of adolescents in the present unstable economic conditions is absolutely necessary. We have studied the ration of the nutrition of the adolescents and conducted its analysis .The research was conducted in the boarding house among the adolescents (between the ages 11 and 13) in which 36 adolescents participated. (22 girls and 14 boys.). The results are compared to the norms of physiological requirements of the adolescents taking into account the major substances and energy. Besides that, biochemical monitoring of the Zn. requirement in the adolescents has been conducted. The research on the quality and quantity of the ration displayed the disbalance of certain substances among them Zn which may have negative affect on the growth and development of the adolescents as well as on the puberty.
authors.affiliation: Tbilisi State Medical University, Department of Public Health, Georgia.
authors.forename: Sh
authors.initials: Sh
authors.lastname: Tukvadze
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kverenchkhiladze
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005846:Georgia (Republic); D006801:Humans; D007455:Iodine / Q000172:deficiency; D000090463:Iron Deficiencies; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition; D018977:Micronutrients / Q000172:deficiency*; D011627:Puberty / Q000502:physiology*; D014815:Vitamins / Q000378:metabolism; D015032:Zinc / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000652:urine
chemical_list: D018977:Micronutrients; D014815:Vitamins; D007455:Iodine; D015032:Zinc