Health Star Ratings should be extended to cover fast food restaurants across Australia says a new report by The George Institute for Global Health. After analysing more than 1, 500 products from 13 leading...

Australia is 'slipping' on efforts to make foods healthier, according to The George Institute Efforts to make foods healthier in Australia are failing, and foods continue to contain high amounts...

An Australian food-scanning app, FoodSwitch, has been recognised in a list of the world’s top 100 innovative initiatives, selected from entries from more than 79 countries. At the international 2013...

A new filter for the FoodSwitch mobile phone app, called GlutenSwitch, has been launched to help Australians with coeliac disease or a gluten intolerance make more informed choices. The new GlutenSwitch...

Australian researchers, including from The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, have found that caffeine-drinking long distance drivers of heavy vehicles are significantly less likely to crash...

An Australian survey by leading consumer advocacy group CHOICE has found that many food manufacturers are using a “trade mark law loophole” to label food as “healthy,” even if they are high in...

One of Australia’s leading public health research bodies, The George Institute, has launched a new smartphone app which gives a Traffic Light rating based on the amount of total fat, saturated fat, sugars...

A report by Sydney based The George Institute for Global Health, released yesterday, says that despite the government’s Food and Health Dialogue, salt levels in Australian bread products have not...

New research has cast concern over the sodium content of pizzas, with 94% of pizzas sold in Australia reportedly “overloaded with salt”. The pizza with the highest sodium was found by The George...