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I. T. Matasar, L. M. Petryshchenko
State Institution «National Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Hematology and Oncology of the
National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine», 53 Yuriia Illienka St., Kyiv, 04050, Ukraine
LIFESTYLE, NUTRITIONAL CULTURE, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS OF THE BODY IN CONDITIONS OF RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINATION
The article examines the issues of a healthy lifestyle, nutritional culture, and the physiological needs for essential
nutrients and energy for the population living in areas radioactively contaminated as a result of the Chornobyl disaster. The radioactive substances will remain in the environment for several more generations, influencing their
health. Providing acceptable living conditions for the population in such territories is a relevant problem that
requires studying and analyzing the impact on public health, as well as developing ways to correct nutrition as the
main source of toxicant intake and establishing the needs for essential nutrients and energy for individuals who
constantly live under the influence of a complex of anthropogenic factors. Technogenic and radioactive contamination of the environment cause severe and irreversible pathological changes and genetic deviations in the human
body. Living in such conditions leads not only to an increase in morbidity but also to premature aging, loss of work
capacity, and an increase in early deaths. Solving the problem of optimizing nutrition is one of the most important
tasks of modern preventive medicine at the state level to preserve and improve human health.
Key words: lifestyle; nutritional culture; prevention; nutrients; chemical composition of food; population of ecologically hazardous regions; Chornobyl accident.
Problems of Radiation Medicine and Radiobiology.
2025;30:513-537. doi: 10.33145/2304-8336-2025-30-513-537
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