Sunday, May 1, 2011

LA Times - Dieters can get out of 'healthy' food trap by checking ingredients

If a packaged food is labeled as "healthy," it probably isn't.
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By Marissa Cevallos
April 23, 2011

"Dieters are more fooled by misleading health labels than people who don’t obsess about calories, a new study suggests. Dieters believed a heap of pasta shells, mozzarella and salami was healthier if it was called a 'salad' instead of 'pasta.' They also ate more jelly beans than non-dieters if they were presented as 'fruit chews' instead of 'candy'..."

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/23/news/la-heb-diet-healthy-20110422

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