Beans fried with bacon and onions are better tbh.

The whole "bacon isn't good for you" is utter bullshit. Bit of a nutritionist myself, only cause I'm addicted to working out thus knowing what exactly goes in my body and how my body handles it is something I'm very passionate about.  Bacon helps fill you up with the pure energy of fat while also providing you with a good level of protein, not to mention that shit's good as fuck, but it's also low as shit in carbohydrates which is the main thing that makes people fat. That being said, bacon can help you lose weight, boost your metabolism and help with the development of lean muscles. Bacon also confines something called choline which helps prevent brain and liver problems such as memory loss, Alzheimer's, depression, hepatitis, etc. You can also find omega-3s in bacon as well which is also found in fish, but without any mercury. Pair up some bacon with something rich in vitamin E (leafy greens or nuts mostly) and that can help prevent hair loss and even some eye diseases.
Honestly, it has a lot more properties than the ones listed above.

And that shit goes good on just about every goddamn thing tbh. It can either be the star or just a component in a dish. This isn't really a response to the article though, just anyone who really thinks bacon isn't good for you. Educate yourself. It's not hard.

Bad advice aside, the stuff with monounsaturated fat is more about preventing heart disease. And it has been suggested in some research that dietary sugar may be worse than saturated fat (eg bacon) in the opposite regard (promoting heart disease).

As far as the carcinogenic effect of processed (eg smoked) and red meat goes, that is true (and isn't really news). That doesn't mean you need to stop eating them but you could consider antioxidant foods like dark leafy greens or ones high in vitamin C and E to balance that out. Stuff like beef and broccoli does this, and the heme iron also promotes the absorption of iron from the broccoli.

The readily available evidence overwhelmingly suggests the contrary.

I think it's about time someone replaced the term "common sense" with "screw this, I need a bacon hoagie". The latter is much more common.

Although, contrary to popular belief, I only consume about 5-8 strips of bacon every week or two, depending on my activity level and moniez. I enjoy buying this big ass box of bacon that houses about 100 pieces of bacon and it's about 20 dollars. I just divide it up into sets of 10 and freeze 'em, take some out, thaw it, cook that shit and eat that essences of the gods.

But I probably consume more peanut butter than bacon in all honesty.

Now you see we get these kind of "health reports" in our evening news here all the time.

Guess what I noticed?

Every 6 months they tend to contradict each other.  Now it's bad but I guarantee in 6 months time another report will come out saying it's not bad.

So my advice "don't listen"

Over here in Australia butter was labelled bad, and so were eggs. But within a year of that coming out they decided that butter wasn't so bad after all and eggs are good for you, so I take these kind of things as pure exaggeration and a huge grain of salt..

Funny isn't it?


So why put out these reports? What's to gain if later they change their mind?

People, just remember that going outside is dangerous too. I mean, not just solar radiation during the day, no, simple cosmic radiation is believed to be the number 1 cause of cancer.