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Hate when these studies come out

JMCXL
JMCXL Posts: 1,524
Bacon, soda and too few nuts tied to big portion of US deaths...
Really just what I need to hear.
https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/bacon-soda-too-few-nuts-tied-big-portion-170115771.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=ma

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Comments

  • ToTheMax
    ToTheMax Posts: 150
    They also put red meats in that list.

    imagonnadieyoung
    Northern Virginia
    LBGE ~'14
  • PoppasGrill
    PoppasGrill Posts: 374
    Wait a few years and it will be .."bacon cures brain tumors, if glazed with crushed nuts and coke..."
    but only if you eat it with a California lab rat..
  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    Haven't had more than 1-2 soda a year for the last 15 years. I eat a lot of nuts and vegetables. And bacon and sausage and beef and most all other meats. 
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
    how is any of this 'news'
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Love Coca-Cola, but was able to go cold turkey about two years ago. Bacon, well, I don't see that ever happening. Everything in moderation, even moderation.
  • bucky925
    bucky925 Posts: 2,053
    Live fast die youg and leave a well marbled corps.

    The best things in life are not things.  

  • Hntnhrd
    Hntnhrd Posts: 713
    I won't click on the link. I don't need that kind of negativity in my life!!! I eat bacon twice a day. Helps take my mind off the horrible chest pains I have!!
  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    I only read studies I agree with so I'll skip clicking on that link.
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




  • The number one cause of death is life...

    I'd live a little first.

    "Brought to you by bourbon, bacon, and a series of questionable life decisions."

    South of Nashville, TN

  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    Again, everything in moderation, including moderation.  Or live in a bubble.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,171
    I want a bacon cheeseburger now...
  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,791
    We all know how this is gonna end.  Enjoy while you can and eat what you want in reasonable quantities.  12 ounce curls keep my upper body well-muscled and then frequent trips to recycle the fluids do wonders for my lower body and endurance.  It's perfect harmony.  
    Next week-the benefits of brown water rocket fuel.  Stay tuned.  ;)
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
  • Gulfcoastguy
    Gulfcoastguy Posts: 7,335
    But DP's Mole rub has cocoa in it and cocoa is an antioxidant so use it on bacon and it's all good.
  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
    lousubcap said:
    We all know how this is gonna end.  Enjoy while you can and eat what you want in reasonable quantities.  12 ounce curls keep my upper body well-muscled and then frequent trips to recycle the fluids do wonders for my lower body and endurance.  It's perfect harmony.  
    Next week-the benefits of brown water rocket fuel.  Stay tuned.  ;)
    I like to use a really heavy based glass when I pour my double pours of bourbon. I get a good workout while imbibing. I usually have to get up several times to go pour more bourbon. I keep the bottle across the way to encourage this cardio activity. If I am unable to get up, I've prolly over done it with my workout. Fortunately, I recuperate quickly.    
  • onedbguru
    onedbguru Posts: 1,648
    A couple of quotes from the comment section of that article:

    "ALL FOOD is tied to DEATH - any person who has eaten FOOD has DIED - 100% of the time."

    "
    I should already be dead!"

    There is absolutely no cause-effect that could explain why/when people die because of what they ate.  it amazes me to no end that these "studies" see how much "<fill in bad food here>" people eat then conclude they died from it. Horse-Hockey!!!   My grandmother ate all of that "<fill in bad food here>" and she lived to 104.
  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,835
    My weakness is soda (Mtn Dew). I don't drink coffee, so my caffeine comes that way.  I kicked the habit before and lost a ton of weight.  Been trying to do it again.  Don't want to get the sugars, and I need to drop some lbs.
    Congrats to all of you who have beaten your habits.
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio

  • Tony_T
    Tony_T Posts: 303
    There are other ways to get caffeine.  Got some tonight from some Two Roads Espressway coffee stout :)
  • Markarm4119
    Markarm4119 Posts: 526
    Ever see a skinny person jogging with a smile on their face ? Eat grilled meat, drink adult beverages and smile !
    LBGE, and just enough knowledge and gadgets to be dangerous .
    Buford,Ga.
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,369
    60 years of bacon > 80 years of oat bran.  
     
    I do have a couple cans of coca-cola in the house, use it to clean the battery terminals in my vehicles; works great!  

    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

                  - Mark Twain 

    Ogden, UT, USA


  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    N=?  Lame study, kinda
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,584
    i like this read more better =)

    Here is a list of the Top 10 Reasons why bacon is actually healthy for you!

    Pork-Powered Protein: The protein found in bacon is extremely valuable to maintaining our energy levels and a fully functioning, healthy body, with a minimum of those nasty, waist, thigh and butt expanding, fat-building carbohydrates.

    Bacon’s Blood-Balancing Bounty: Several university and medical center studies have shown that including bacon as a regular, moderate part of one’s diet naturally works to lower the body’s blood pressure and blood sugar levels, helping to prevent and/or alleviate the effects of diabetes, as well as heart disease, stroke and heart attack.

    Flushing Fat With Flavorful, Friendly Flesh: While people have heard horror stories for years that bacon is full of harmful fat and after all, if you are what you eat, who wants to be a PIG? But the facts are completely the opposite, as bacon helps to fully satiate our appetite with high protein / low carb energy, helping the body lose weight, raise one’s metabolism and build leaner, stronger muscles.

    Bacon actually has less total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol than many popular cuts of beef and chicken. While some fish has less fat and cholesterol than bacon, bacon has more protein power and does not contain toxins such as mercury.

    Bacon’s Brain Building Business: Bacon is chock full of a very important nutrient called “choline,” which helps increase our intelligence and memory, from conception to Senior Status, and has been shown in University studies to help fight off the debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s Disease and other chronic mental impairments.

    Bacon Lets You “Pig Out” On Essential Vitamins & Minerals: Bacon provides us with substantial amounts of the important, necessary vitamins and minerals our bodies need to function healthfully. From bacon, we receive: 65% of our Recommended Daily Intake of Thiamin (Vitamin B1) as well as 47% of our Niacin (Vitamin B3), 38% of our Vitamin B12, 36% of our Zinc, 24% of our Vitamin B6, 22% of our Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), 22% of our Phosphorus, 10% of our Pantothenate, 10% of our Magnesium, 9% of our Iron and the Protein to fat balance in bacon is actually 4 to 1, which is one of the highest protein to fat balances found in any meat, fish or fowl found on Earth.

    Effective Mood Elevator: Bacon makes you feel happy, satisfied, blissful, which greatly reduces stress in our lives and effectively relieves the negative effects of frustration, self-deprivation and sense of lack in one’s existence.

    Nitrates and Nitrites – Now Non-Issues: The fact is, while it is true that nitrates and nitrites are unhealthy for your body, what most pro -veggie, chicken and fish nutritionists fail to tell you is that you can easily avoid nitrates and nitrites by simply (A) not burning / charring / over cooking your bacon or by (B) Baking your bacon in the oven.

    Some people also choose to avoid nitrates and nitrites by (C) cooking their bacon in the microwave, however, some medical research shows a strong correlation between microwaved proteins (all meats and proteins, from beef to fish, from cheese to eggs and even milk) and cancers caused by protein mutation under the conditions of microwave bombardment, so we recommend using the oven, 400 degrees, 8 to 10 minutes per side.

    P.S. if you always include some dairy and citrus in your bacon meal, the vitamins A, D and E work to effectively prevent conversion of “nitrates and nitrites into dangerously toxic “nitrosamines” in the stomach, rendering them harmless to the body.

    Bacon Power Now Expands To Our Vehicles and Industry: Yes, believe it or not, a company in The United Kingdom, TMI Foods has already successfully found a way to use bacon fat and grease to manufacture a powerful, low emission, environmentally friendly, all-natural, bio-diesel fuel that can be used to effectively and inexpensively run anything from motor vehicles to turbines and from the various engines of industry to illuminating and empowering generators. That’s right … Pig Power now also means “Power To The People!”

    Universally Beloved Flavor Enhancer: Because bacon tastes so amazingly awesome, we’re a LOT more willing to set many of our finicky ways aside to enthusiastically eat many of the boring, icky, lackluster, so-called, “healthy, nutritious food items” that are supposedly good for us, as long as they come wrapped in bacon or with lots of bacon bits broken up and served with or within them.

    While We Heart Bacon – Bacon Heart’s Your Heart: While people over the years have mistakenly made jokes about bacon being a leading contributor to heart disease, actually there are in fact several studies that show that the Omega-3 Fatty Acids and “choline” found in bacon can actually protect the heart from developing detrimental problems, as well as actually help HEAL such anomalies, after they have occurred!

    Unlike the Omega-3 Fatty Acids supplements derived from fish sources, the ones that come from bacon aren’t chock full of poisonous mercury, like most of the popular fish oil versions are. So bacon Omega-3’s can not only help prevent heart disease, as well as lower your cholesterol, reduce inflammation and improve circulation, but also help you to avoid mercury and other toxic poisons being regularly spewed into our planet’s oceans.


    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    ^^^^ "Unlike the Omega-3 Fatty Acids supplements derived from fish sources, the ones that come from bacon aren’t chock full of poisonous mercury, like most of the popular fish oil versions are."

    That's not really true. Popular fish oil supplements are not "chock full of poisonous mercury".

    https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/Is+fish+oil+safe+Is+it+contaminated+with+mercury+and+PCBs/fish-oil_contamination/

    Nice list tho - just the kinda thing one would expect from a website called "Bacon Today". :)

    https://bacontoday.com/top-10-reasons-bacon-is-actually-healthy-for-you/
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,584
    HeavyG said:
    ^^^^ "Unlike the Omega-3 Fatty Acids supplements derived from fish sources, the ones that come from bacon aren’t chock full of poisonous mercury, like most of the popular fish oil versions are."

    That's not really true. Popular fish oil supplements are not "chock full of poisonous mercury".

    https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/Is+fish+oil+safe+Is+it+contaminated+with+mercury+and+PCBs/fish-oil_contamination/

    Nice list tho - just the kinda thing one would expect from a website called "Bacon Today". :)

    https://bacontoday.com/top-10-reasons-bacon-is-actually-healthy-for-you/
    nine and a half outa tens not bad =) centrum silver and a side of bacon sounds better than centrum silver and a side of fish oil =)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Eoin
    Eoin Posts: 4,304
    Sugar laden stuff like soda and sweets (candy) are just wasted calories for me. I like sugary stuff, but it's a dead cert way to put on weight and I prefer to cut that out and keep drinking beer and eating meat.