Salads sell Fries

Beware the salad at your local McDonald's... it'll probably just make you supersize your fries.

Investigators asked college students to choose foods from menus that differed in only one feature; one menu offered a salad and the other did not. The point? To find out whether the presence of a salad on the menu influenced what else the students ate. It did. The students choose French fries more often from the menu with the salad. The authors’ interpretation: the “health aura” of salads gives people permission to indulge.

(via Food Politics)