[Highlights of Finnish nutrition research]

The main focus of Finnish nutritional science has been on the elucidation of causative factors of chronic diseases playing a central role in public health. The research has yielded important data about the population's nutrition, and these data have been utilized through several actions at the population level. The most important achievement is suppression of the epidemic of coronary artery disease, based on strong scientific evidence about the central reasons of the epidemic. Careful planning and implementation of the studies along with large sample sizes improve the reliability of the studies.