New health food stores: Granola is out, pork is in

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New health food stores: Granola is out, pork is in

Atkins diet inspires Bay Area no-carb outlets

 

Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, July 27, 2003

 

A new kind of health food store is sprouting up all over the Bay Area,

and the hottest products on the shelves are the cinnamon-butter pork

rinds.

 

As proof that the Atkins diet craze is spreading like zero-carb syrup

on a whey protein pancake, special shrines are being created for the

exploding number of devoted carbohydrate-dodgers -- culinary safe

havens where the snack chips are soy and the soda is sugar-free Diet

Rite. Some vegetables are forbidden fruit.

 

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