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part of the products. Modern man is increasingly difficult to obtain 
nutrients from ordinary food. Soils are becoming poorer, and they 
are sown with the latest crops that give good yields, well stored, well 
transported, but because of this poor nutrients. Often, modern man, 
to get everything you need from food, should not eat less, and more. 
And as a result, the task of organizing a healthy lifestyle, a healthy 
diet in order to get all the necessary substances without facing the 
problem of obesity. 
When developing practical recommendations to improve the 
quality of life of the population, its preservation and reproduction, 
the most important direction forms the introduction of the ideology 
of health and healthy lifestyle as a national idea. In order to improve 
the reproductive health of young people, improve the quality of life of 
persons with disabilities, the poor and the elderly, and ensure the 
health of the younger generation, it is necessary to organize function-
al nutrition. 
Functional nutrition is a food that helps to improve the function-
ing of all organs and systems of the human body. Functional nutri-
tion is closely related to the functions performed by a particular indi-
vidual in the economic life of society: a schoolboy, a student, a young 

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mother, a soldier in a hot spot, a miner and a pensioner, spend dif-
ferent amounts of calories and, therefore, need a different, "function-
ally" characteristic of this group of society, food. As a new scientific 
and applied direction, which arose at the junction of medical and 
food biotechnology, it received official recognition in Japan in 1989. 
This type of food is aimed at the use of functional foods. 
Physician note that modern people have increased the number 
of diseases such as allergic diseases, problems of the gastrointestinal 
tract (including dysbacteriosis), metabolic disorders (diabetes, obesi-
ty), problems with the immune system, cardiovascular diseases and 
cancer. Scientists faced the task of improving the quality of food 
products in order to improve human health through nutrition and 
reduce the consumption of "chemical" drugs. At the same time, 
among the population of the majority of industrialized countries, 
there has been a sharp increase in sentiment to maintain health and 
maximize life expectancy. If you include functional nutrition in your 
life, you will get into the habit of choosing the right products that are 
useful for every cell of the human body. 
A number of researchers say that we should not forget Malthus, 
who starved everyone with universal hunger, because the population 
is growing much more intensively than the amount of food produced, 
including due to the limited food resources themselves. Hence there 
is a problem of resource saving, that is, the maximum possible ex-
traction of useful food ingredients from raw materials. Moreover, 
these previously unused ingredients are very well find their place in a 
functional diet, in particular, this applies to dietary fibers, which are 
well removed from the body radionuclides and other side "gifts" of a 
developed civilization. 
The functional system of nutrition is aimed at solving the main 
problems of modern people, first of all, non-food nutrition. Its ap-
pearance is caused by the active rhythm of human life, a busy sched-
ule of life, frequent fast food snacks, easy access to fatty and fried 
food. Harm also causes low-quality food intake. Modern food con-
sists of a large number of dyes, preservatives, flavors. Such products 
do not saturate the body, but only temporarily smooth out the feeling 
of hunger, and after a few hours it returns. Functional nutrition pro-
motes the use of organic organic organic products, devoid (as far as 
possible) of chemical components, the Person seems to return to 
primitive times, when taste enhancers did not exist. 
Improperly organized food unhealthy products causes a whole 
bunch of diseases. Based on the position of functional nutrition, a 

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