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When the label says 'low fat,' calories can pile up, study says @supost.com

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Date: Wed, Dec 06, 2006, 12:00 AM PST

People -- especially overweight people -- consume up to 50 percent more calories when they eat low-fat versions of snack foods than when they eat the regular versions, finds a study by Cornell's Brian Wansink.<br><br><a href='http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/RN.low.fat.sl.html' target='_blank'>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/RN.low.fat.sl.html</a><br><br>

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When the label says &#039;low fat,&#039; calories can pile up, study says @supost.com