Healthy nutrition – prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases. Overview of recommendations

The article provides an overview of the National Recommendations on healthy nutrition available in Europe, Asia (China), the USA and the Russian Federation, assesses the compliance of the presented guidelines with the principles of a healthy diet according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization, and analyzes their role in the prevention of the development of non-infectious diseases, including number of diseases of the cardiovascular system. A search of relevant literature for the review was conducted in PubMed (www.pubmed.gov) using English keywords (“national dietary guidelines”, “WHO diet”, “FBDG”, “dietary guidelines”, “cardiovascular factors”), the website of the National Project of the Russian Federation “Healthy Nutrition” (https://здоровое-питание.рф), eLIBRARY.RU (https://elibrary.ru/defaultx.asp) using keywords in Russian (“ESSE-RF”, “risk factors for non-infectious diseases”, “nutrition”). Publications published between 1995 and 2022 were considered. The review included the National Recommendations in force for 2023, as well as the results of cohort and multicenter studies, the purpose of which was to assess the impact of current recommendations on the development of traditional cardiovascular risk factors, associated clinical conditions (myocardial infarction, stroke, etc.), as well as the impact on general mortality. Publications with completely duplicate data and conclusions were excluded, and in case of partial overlap, both sources were indicated. As a result, a list was compiled of articles, newsletters, and links with up-to-date information on the National Guidelines.