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Article: Surplus of Diet Food Feeds Ky. Residents
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ROGER ALFORD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-31-2005
Dateline: PAINTSVILLE, Ky.
A surplus of diet food for the overweight has been a boon for the hungry in Appalachia.
Unsold crates of low-carb energy bars, shakes and breakfast mixes have been pouring into the Christian Appalachian Project to be distributed in mountain communities. For people who might otherwise go hungry, diet food beats no food at all.
"You can't go wrong with giving any kind of food away," said Ken Slone, manager of the charity's warehouse some 25 miles from the spot where President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964. "When you're feeding people, you're doing a good thing."
Since September, the charity has ...