Dr Seyfried - Bacon comment

(Pete A) #22

Thought provoking.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #23

Georgia Ede has a whole article debunking that study. Most of the studies done fail to show any kind of significant association between nitrates and cancer, and the WHO ignored almost all of those studies in favor of a very few that seemed to back their position.

(A ham loving ham! - VA6KD) #24

That’s me at the hotel…those bacons are like paper thin and transparent! I heap them on my plate and they all crunch down to almost nothing. Best part is all those “tsk tsk you’ll get fat(ter) eating all that bacon!” looks from the other patrons.

#25

Understandably bacon provides the streaky stripes in the keto banner.

The other approach is to ask, “Can you (n=1 you) do keto without bacon?”

If the answer is “no”, then one has to question whether they are an addict. Which takes us, via biochemistry, back to sugar and the biology of addiction.

Isn’t a key to keto the control we regain over hunger, cravings, over-eating and avalanche foods?

So when we n=1 our best decision making with all this delicious research, we can opt in and out of eating bacon*, if the science evolves in and out of f(l)avour, and we know well it will. *Doin’ the bacon hokey pokey :wink:

As for meat processing, one moment we have a pig, the next moment we have pork. Processing with a view to preservation and storage of the meat begins at the moment of the animal’s death. I tried to think the same way about a plant but cutting or plucking seems different… this rabbit hole is looming too deep.

(Dan Dan) #26

Keto frees many (but not all) from having to control hunger and over eating by its virtue of causing a lack of hunger and feeling satiated :bacon:

(Wendy) #27

That explains perhaps why I did not care as much for the nitrate free bacon I tried. It tasted different.

(Doug) #28

Paul, I just watched this video:

She doesn’t talk about processed meat much at all, but makes a good case for red meat being erroneously portrayed a lot of the time. I wasn’t worrying about it before, and that’s reinforced, now. Good to know…

(Doug) #29

Indeed, Keehan. :smile: Crunch that pile of bacon down and what do you get - the equivalent of 4 or 6 regular pieces? It’s so thin that if it’s crispy it scares me a little, as if breaking it up, even chewing it, will result in flakes floating in the air and I’ll inhale them into my lungs.

(Dan Dan) #30

@OldDoug @PaulL

Georgia Ede, MD

" My conclusion is …The WHO report is not a scientific document. It is a POLITICAL document"

This was my favorite :smiley:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #31

True, but she does mention the flimsiness of the evidence linking nitrites/nitrates and cancer. As I recall, anyway. It certainly won’t hurt me to watch it again. :bacon: