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Byline: Sandra Ewon Kim
Feb. 10--The low-carb diet craze has restaurants revamping menus throughout South Florida to meet their patrons' penchant for banning bread and taking a pass on the pasta.
Burger King serves a bunless Whopper and provides a plastic fork.
Ruby Tuesday has a turkey burger in a wrap rather than a bun. And Casa D'Angelo in Fort Lauderdale offers a veal chop with a side salad for those struggling to say no to its homemade pasta.
From fast food outlets to upscale bistros, restaurants are revising their menus to entice South Floridians who are among the 32 million Americans on some kind of high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet.
Even as some dieticians contend that a low-carb diet doesn't guarantee good health or weight loss, chefs are creating special dishes to satisfy the demands of such diets as the ever-popular Atkins Diet and the South Beach Diet, which touts…
Source: HighBeam Research, South Florida Restaurants Beef Up Low-Carbohydrate Options.