That free side dish can kill you – SmartPlanet

The media take away on the Tufts study concerning the calorie counts on low-cal meals is that restaurants and packaged food makers lie.Calorie counts listed for packaged foods averaged 8% higher than stated, and for restaurants it was 18%, according to Susan Roberts and her team. The recipe for this Boston Market cornbread is amazingly simple. From Thesistersdish blog.But a closer look at the paper, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association shows something different, and perhaps more insidious.It’s all in the free side dishes.

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