Eating 'light' version of your favourite meal may be counterproductive

Tucking into a 'light' version of your favourite meal to lose weight may be counterproductive because it just encourages you to eat more, a study suggests.

Supermarket shelves in the UK are abound with ready meals advising that they are 'calorie controlled' or 'lighter' than their normal counterparts, with the aim of luring in shoppers losing to shed some pounds.

But new research from a team of Dutch and US nutritional and psychology experts has found labels touting a meal as being 'light' seem to prompt diners to overindulge.

Scientists presented a group of 37 volunteers wit...