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Article: Diet food surplus goes to feed the hungry in Ky.: Atkins products benefit needy people in Paintsville area
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- March 31, 2005
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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 received 14 truckloads of food
from Atkins Nutritionals, the ...