InnoFoodAfrica explores climate-smart African crops in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. The emphasis will be to target the new foods to vulnerable people such as malnourished infants, expecting mothers and urban adults under the risk of obesity. This will be done by increasing the diversity of affordable, nutrient-dense and healthy food products made of using local crops as raw materials and supporting the people to eat more healthily. As a part of the project, nutritional status and dietary intakes are assessed in 400 mothers and their small children in all four target countries in urban setting. Human Nutrition at UH is in charge of the survey in Kenya.
This Academy Research Fellow (9/2017–8/2022) project aims to provide novel insights for developing personalized approaches to promoting healthy eating as well as improved psychosocial treatment after bariatric surgery by combining information from several internationally unique datasets.
The aim of the Food Step project is to develop a sustainable operating model that will support children’s healthy diets and reduce the climate impacts of food provision in early childhood education and care.
The general objective is to promote preschool as a setting for healthy lifestyle and wellbeing – for both children and preschool personnel. We assess children’s energy balance-related behaviours (dietary intake, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, screen time, and sleep pattern), and their relations to stress markers and overweight/obesity.
The aim of the PAMEL project is to research the life, work and wellbeing of private sector service workers in Finland
LoCard research group focuses on exploring consumers’ purchase behavior and anticipated health and environmental effects through vast amount of loyalty card data
The implementation of food catering, dietary quality, and children’s food engagement in residential childcare units.