[Diet therapy of obesity in children and adolescents].

Obesity is a frequent pathology among children and adolescents. Disease incidence and prevalence increase among the Ukrainian children population from year to year. The causes leading to an excessive body mass in children are revealed in this article. Dietotherapy is principal method of obesity treatment in children and adolescents. The dietotherapy principles, indications and contraindications to different diets used for children and also their pathogenetic idea of administration are detailed in the article. Criteria of adequate prescription of low-calorie diet are explained. The examples of prescribed in podiatry fasting days with the indication of chemical content of proposed products are given in the article. Diets for children of different age depending on the degree of excessive body mass are described in the article.