Lifestyles and nutrition

FINELI – What does food contain?

Find information on the nutrient composition of different food items in Fineli, the National Food Composition Database.

Sleep and sleep disorders

Sleep has a major impact on health. Find information on sleep and common sleep disorders.

Programmes and Recommendations

Perhe syömässä

Nutrition and food recommendations (Finnish Food Authority)
Student meals benefiting health and communities - Food recommendations for vocational institutions and general upper secondary schools 2019 (Finnish National Agency for Education)
The National Obesity Programme 2012–2018

Projects

A high-quality database to support equality in Finland: National and regional integration (MoniTieto)
Climate change and Health: Adapting to Mental, Physical and Societal challenges (CHAMPS)
Extracting information from unstructured text data in the Finnish patient data repository with machine learning methods (Aioli)
Finnish Research Infrastructure on Population Based Surveys (FIRI-PBS)
FoodStep - a sustainable health-promoting model for food services and early childhood education and care
Healthy Finland Survey
Joint Action on Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes (JACARDI)
P6 – Genomics to Healthcare
The Finnish Student Health and Wellbeing Survey (KOTT)
Youth Nutrition Study - Hankerakenne

What's New

30.10.2024

A new nutrition study examines the eating habits and nutritional intake of young people
10.9.2024

THL invites 64,000 adults to participate in an extensive survey on health, welfare and service experiences
24.4.2024

Healthy Finland Survey: Significant differences in work ability and physical functional capacity between cities

All news

Topic information

Lifestyles and nutrition website contains information about lifestyles and nutrition of Finnish population and recommendations and guidelines associated with them.

Good nutrition, sufficient physical activity and sleep as well as normal weight are promoting health.