Introduction: All eligible young male citizens in Finland are conscripted in the Defence Forces (DF) for 6-11 months. DF has been stressing physical training but is currently emphasizing healthy nutrition increasingly for physical performance, too, as weight gain is a cohort trend. In 2007 THL and DF started a 3-year intervention study (DefenceNutri) to find instruments to improve the conscripts' diet, including a control ( At 6 months SBP was lowered in average by 2.1 hgmm (p<.001), DBP and LDL were kept maintained, but triglycerides and fasting glucose were increased by 0.4 mmol/l (p<.001), respectively. Low-educated subjects had somewhat more detrimental characteristics at start, but differences between educational groups largely levelled-off during the service. Conclusions: While the DF provided nutrition already follows guidelines there is a need for supply/demand targeted nutrition intervention related especially to saturated fat and sugar containing snacks among conscripts. OBJECTIVE: Two hundred and fifteen industrial workers suffering from occupational skin diseases (OSD) have attended a 6months combined dermatological and educational prevention program with an education and counseling scheme as well as an intervention The aim of this program, conducted from 2007-2009, was to enable the affected worker to remain at work without suffering from major OSD.