Rational and balanced nutrition, corresponding to age, professional activity, health condition and living conditions, plays a key role in ensuring the general well-being of a person. It creates optimal conditions for physical growth, harmonious mental development, maintaining high performance, and also helps to strengthen the body's defense mechanisms against unfavorable environmental factors, such as stress, unfavorable ecology, infections and other aggressive effects.Nutrition adapted to the body's needs is an important tool for preventing a wide range of diseases. For example, eating a balanced amount of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, foods rich in vitamins and minerals helps reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke and hypertension.