Nutrition plays an important role in a person's ability to function, health, and quality of life. Good nutrition can help prevent and treat many lifestyle-derived diseases. Nutrition also has an essential impact on psychological and social wellbeing.
Good nutrition also contributes to work performance and motivation. Eating well at work and having a regular meal pattern contribute to well-being at work and work capacity. The brain and muscles need fuel to work and recover from work.
The Research Center for Human Functioning carries out scientific nutrition research, with a particular focus on working-age people, to study the effects of nutrition on work capacity and well-being.
Find out more about the Finnish nutrition recommendations on the website of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare.
Ideas for co-operation? Contact:
Susanna Kunvik
Senior Researcher
Project Manager
SAMK
+358 44 710 3204
Mind Nutrition
The Mind Nutrition project aims to study the effectiveness of improving nutrition on depressive symptoms and related sick leave and work ability and to identify associations and interactions between nutrition, mental health and work ability in the Finnish working-age population.
RAVI
The RAVI project (Improving work-time nutrition as a success factor for enterprises in Satakunta) includes a randomised, controlled trial (RCT) exploring the effectiveness of nutritional guidance on workability, work productivity, sickness absence, work well-being, health-related quality of life, and nutrition.
Eat@Work
The objective of the successful Eat@Work project was to increase employee work well-being and the ability to work with multifactorial nutritional intervention.
