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'Healthy' restaurants help make us fat

You can eat too much at so-called healthy restaurants. Just because a food is considered "healthy," most people will treat themselves to higher-calorie side dishes, drinks or desserts, according to studies at Cornell University in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Most people tend to underestimate by 35 percent just how many calories "healthy" restaurant foods contain. If you order the low-calorie sub sandwich, chances are you'll treat yourself with the brownie or a soft drink.

In fact, you'll eat up to 131 percent more calories when you think you're eating healthy than if you had just ordered at a fast-food burger place, said Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, and professor and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.