Nutrition and sleep
Healthy eating habits protect against major common diseases in Finland. Eating properly gives us energy, nutrients, endurance, and pleasure. Eating habits are largely learned behaviours, and they can be developed at any age.
Sufficient, well-timed and restorative sleep brings alertness and vitality to our waking hours. Sleep is a sensitive indicator of wellbeing. Sleep is individual; we all have our own way of falling asleep and sleeping. Humans spend about a third of their lives asleep, so it is worth paying attention to sleep.
There is no brain health without sleep. Sleep also ensures the functioning of memory, emotional life, and information processing. It also affects, for example, weight management and prevents many diseases.
Service path: Nutrition that promotes wellbeing
1. Assess your situation
Are you wondering whether you get enough fibre or whether your diet contains too much salt? These tests help you understand the state of your nutrition.
With Ravitsemusnavigaattori (Nutrition Navigator), you can easily and reliably compare your eating habits with nutritional recommendations. After answering questions about different aspects of your diet, you will receive automatic feedback.
2. Recommendations
The basic idea of nutrition is to eat enough and to eat a sufficiently varied diet that matches your energy needs. In addition, we have specific needs due to factors such as age or health, which should be taken into account in our diet. You can explore the general recommendations through these links.
A varied diet is also an important consideration in connection with various illnesses. You can find illness-specific tips here.
The Voimaa ruuasta website (Strength from Food) is intended for all elderly people living at home. The aim is to promote the functional capacity and health of elderly people through nutrition, physical activity and shared activities.
You can find more information about nutrition for pregnant women, new mothers, children, and young people on the Omaperhe website, organised by age group.
3. Self-care and self-help programmes
Would you like help changing your diet? With these coaching programmes, you will receive professional support and can reflect on what kind of change would suit you.
Practical tools and tips for healthy, high-quality eating.
You can reflect on the habits that affect your weight and on everyday strategies that can help you manage your weight more effectively.
4. Are you concerned about your nutrition or relationship with food?
Nutrition and eating habits are more than just eating food. We know that many of us are unhappy with our weight, and an alarming number of young people are at risk of developing an eating disorder.
You can learn what a relationship with food means and how it can affect our wellbeing. If you are concerned about your own or a loved one’s risk of developing an eating disorder, please contact a healthcare professional.
Service path: Towards better sleep
1. Assess your situation
Sleep eliminates fatigue and restores energy. During the night, the brain cleans itself, refuels and repairs. Would you like to take a closer look at your sleep and recovery? The tests below can help you assess your sleeping habits.
2. How to promote good sleep and recovery
Rest and sleep help you cope better. Simply getting enough hours of sleep is not enough; you also need good-quality sleep and other forms of rest.
How can you recognise the early signs of fatigue? How does sleep deprivation affect you?
Poor sleep and daytime tiredness may be caused by sleep apnoea.
3. Coaching and self-care programmes
With these coaching programmes, you will receive professional support and can reflect on what kind of change would suit you.
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