I knew it! Bacon is good for you!
Can’t wait to use this to discombobulate every vegetarian/“vegan” I know.
Maybe Mcdonalds will bring back the lard. Their french fies were better then.
It’s also a natural hair product!
Not a pork fan (religious reasons) but fats from healthy animals indeed are a necessary and healthy important part of your diet. There are some excellent vegan fats too, of course, but animal fats are good for you and don’t even make you fat.* There is no reason to let anything other than taste limit your animal fats, with the one huge caveat:
The fat must be from a HEALTHY animal eating a close to natural healthy diet.
* healthy fats don’t make you fat - I keep a food record and over 50% of my calories every day come from healthy fat and I don’t gain an ounce. Until I kept records, I knew fat didn’t make one fat intellectually, but now I know it for sure.
Southerners have known it for 300 years.
CC
Oh, my wife will be happy to know that I should be eating more snapper.
Give your dog a teaspoonful of bacon fat every day and watch what it does to his coat.
...and what’s sad is that 95% (or more) of doctors either will not read this, or just laugh it off because it wasn’t what they were ‘taught’.
Not to go off-topic a bit here, but that same 95% of doctors also think that statins are God’s gift to humanity and the fact that 2/3’s of the people using them wind up with side effects, some as bad a early-onset cataracts or diabetes, is taken as hearsay and totally discounted - even though cataracts and diabetes is now, finally, being disclosed as side effects.
Just a matter of time before they discover that bacon is the key to longevity and health
Excessive consumption of fat can lead to obesity, according to a Singapore-based nutritionist interviewed by the Chinese daily.
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Not if your carb intake is low... but we covered that yesterday in the keto thread
For most of human history, the only available grease was animal fat. Grease is necessary for the intestines to work smoothly and countless other functions.
Vegetable Oils and butter are a relatively recent invention
It ranks right next to s’mores!
Number One - Almonds!
I’m going to double my consumption of large Hershey Almond Chocolate Bars!
I am in Australia. As well as being here on business, I am helping care for my friend’s 100 year old father, Roy.
Roy insists on bacon and eggs and fried onions for his breakfast, every morning. He says it is part of the reason for his longevity.
Only anecdotal, of course, and Roy is also careful about how much he eats (only two eggs and a couple of slices of bacon).
When I was a young an old gold minor told me your body tells you what to eat. If you have a craving it means your body wants it. He was right.
Hot and spicy pork rinds! Now we’re talking!
Pork rinds and beer - Breakfast of Champions.