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'Healthy' restaurants help make us fat, says a new Cornell study

The 'health halos' of healthy restaurants often prompt consumers to treat themselves to higher-calorie side dishes, drinks or desserts than when they eat at fast-food restaurants that make no health claims, says Cornell University's Brian Wansink.

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