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Byline: Jack Hitt
Prowling the Vermont- Canada border, I am off to explore the dark underbelly of America's current low-carb mania. My five associates-all girls under the age of twelve, two daughters and three friends-seem uninterested in my mission as we pull into the factory of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. The company has begun producing a line of Carb Karma ice creams that cater to the now-estimated 24 million Americans who are on some form of a carb-conscious regimen, like the Atkins or South Beach diet.
Is there any doubt that America is in the grip of one of its periodic dieting crazes? Every other day, some improbable item (like low-carb ice cream) ...