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Food Banks in Appalachia Try Diet Fare

Friday, April 08, 2005 7:15:24 AM
By ROGER ALFORD

  Ken Slone stands in the Christian Appalachian Project warehouse stocked with diet food near Paintsville, Ky., on Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Since September, the charity has received 14 truckloads of food from Atkins Nutritionals, the New York company famous for the low-carb diet. Slone said each truck load contained about 1,300 cases of energy bars, shakes and breakfast mixes that are being distributed to churches and other organizations that minister to the needy. (AP Photo/Roger Alford, File)PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A surplus of diet food for the overweight has been a boon for the hungry in Appalachia. Once hot and trendy, low-carb Atkins diet foods that never got sold are being shipped to food banks.

Since September, 14 truckloads of Atkins Nutritional bars, shakes and breakfast mixes have been sent to charities that hand out free food.

And if you're desperate, the low-carb bars aren't bad.


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