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WA Media Releases

05 Jun 2019
Aussies’ growing ‘app-etite’ for convenience comes at a price

New data reveals convenience foods get in the way of our efforts to eat well

15 Mar 2019
More than half a kilo of sugar in Eggstreme Easter eggs

If you’re not keen on a nine hour jog this long weekend, you might want to skip that giant egg. Cancer Council WA’s LiveLighter dietitians went on an egg hunt this week to see just how much sugar is lurking in the trendy enormous eggs for sale across Perth.

10 Jan 2019
Cleaning Up Junk Food In Sport – It’s Just Not Cricket

Public health groups are calling on elite sporting clubs to clean their act up as new research shows mums and dads are sick of major sports codes partnering with junk food companies that put profits before health.

30 Nov 2018
Don't Be Sucked In This Summer

Summer officially starts tomorrow and obesity prevention initiative, LiveLighter®, is warning people to beware the barrage of cheap frozen sugary drinks with the launch of their ‘Don’t Be Sucked In’ campaign.

22 Oct 2018
Sugary Drinks Set To Fizzle Out - National Expert Shows WA Hospitals How

A national expert in public health is to meet with WA health leaders this week to discuss removing sugary drinks ahead of next week’s deadline to comply with the Government’s Healthy Options Policy.

17 Oct 2018
WA Community Support For Sugary Drinks Tax

A new survey has found Western Australians want a tax on sugary drinks.

11 Oct 2018
World Obesity Day: Why Industry Should Take More Responsibility For The Obesity Epidemic

New LiveLighter research shows a high degree of public support for restrictions on the sale of junk foods and sugary drinks.

13 Sep 2018
100 Days To Christmas – How One Mince Pie A Day Could Make You Stack On Unwanted Kilos

Christmas is already in full swing in supermarket aisles and catalogues prompting a plea from LiveLighter® for Western Australians to ensure their festive ‘treats’ don’t become an everyday habit.

28 Mar 2018
The Tempter Trap

With supermarket shelves and catalogues bulging with Easter ‘treats’ since January, make sure your Easter ‘treat’ doesn’t become a habit.

23 Mar 2018
Supermarket catalogues miss the mark when it comes to healthy trolleys

LiveLighter's latest survey shows fruit and vegetables take up just 4% of catalogue space.

VIC Media Releases

For Victorian LiveLighter media enquiries, please contact Lauren Zammit on (03) 9514 6440

09 May 2018
Healthier choices become easier in Victoria

LiveLighter warmly welcomes the commencement of mandatory kilojoule labelling in chain fast food outlets and supermarkets across Victoria this month.

26 Apr 2018
Graphic campaign curbs Victorians' love affair with sugary drinks

Victorians could be spared from 1,085 new cases of type 2 diabetes and 153 new cases of heart disease if the government ran a graphic public education campaign on the link between sugary drinks and chronic health conditions, according to health researchers.

20 Apr 2018
Is "low carb" beer really better for you? New analysis shows it's a big fat myth

Health groups call for nutrition info panels on alcohol

09 Apr 2018
GPs a leading source of weight and nutrition info: survey

Doctors urged to get comfortable talking to patients about obesity

23 Mar 2018
Supermarket catalogues miss the mark when it comes to healthy trolleys

LiveLighter's latest survey shows fruit and vegetables take up just 4% of catalogue space.

23 Jan 2018
A nation of 'car potatoes'

New figures from a LiveLighter survey reveal three out of four Aussies prefer to drive than walk.

11 Jan 2018
It's a slippery slurp to toxic fat

A cheeky, graphic counter-campaign taking on cheap frozen drink promotions like $1 Slurpees and Frozen Cokes has hit Victorian bus and tram stops to urge Australians to rethink their sugary drink.

02 Nov 2017
Aussies inspired to get healthy, but life getting in the way New data reveals our healthy and not-so healthy habits

A revealing new survey from LiveLighter has painted a stark picture of the health of Australian adults – we’re heavier than we think, we’re too busy to cook, some of us do no exercise at all and we’re still not eating enough vegies. On the plus side, almost half of us are trying to do something about our weight, Aussies in their forties are leading the way in fitness and popular cooking shows are inspiring us to get cooking.

28 Aug 2017
'Healthy' breakfast biscuits, drinks not all they're cracked up to be

Eight in ten on-the-go breakfast products, such as biscuits, drinks and yoghurt/cereal combos, contain more sugar than the staple wheat biscuits and milk and are up to 18 times more expensive, a new study from LiveLighter has revealed.

06 Jul 2017
What is healthy? Survey reveals huge gap in what public, nutritionists think is healthy

Coconut oil, gluten-free cakes, orange juice, frozen yoghurt and muesli bars – they’re marketed as good for us, but are they really healthy? A new survey by LiveLighter has revealed some eye-opening differences between what members of the public and a sample of nutrition experts think is healthy.