Disease prevention guidelines put interprofessional collaboration to support healthy eating on the agenda.

In Sweden 50% of all women and 65% of all men are estimated to have one or more unhealthy lifestyle habits contributing to more than 20% of the total disease burden in the nation. This has led to a reaction from the government and in 2011 the National Board of Health and Welfare published national guidelines for methods of preventing disease. The methods are evidence-based and designed to support patients in their efforts to change an unhealthy lifestyle habit. The foundation is that there is evidence for how we should beworking, but there has not been uniform practice in the healthcare system. The lifestyle habits that the guidelines discuss are: