Bacon is really bad for you..

[pErvinalia]

says a blasphemous report by some "scientists". I think we should organise a trrrst strike against these people.

Hot on the heels of the horse-meat scandal, here’s more bummer meat news.

Eating more than 0.7 ounces a day of processed meat — salami, cured bacon, sausages, that kind of thing — will make you more likely to die prematurely, killed by a heart attack or cancer.

That’s the conclusion of a new study published in BMC Medicine. Scientists tracked almost a half million people in 10 European countries and concluded that 3 percent of premature deaths could be avoided if everybody ate less than three-quarters of an ounce of processed meat every day.

It’s not just the fat in the processed meat that kills: The researchers say it’s the chemicals and salt used to preserve it.

Meat eaters who down 5.5 ounces of processed meat every day — roughly two sausages and a piece of bacon — were 44 percent more likely to die during the 13-year study than those eating just 0.7 ounces, the BBC reported.

http://grist.org/news/bacon-is-really-b ... aign=daily

[Pappa]

How many years of extra life would you be willing to sacrifice for bacon?

[JimC]

5.5 ounces of processed meat every day — roughly two sausages and a piece of bacon...

I would probably have the equivalent of that about twice a week, on average, so meh...

[Bella Fortuna]

How many years of extra life would you be willing to sacrifice for bacon?

Depends on whose it is...

[Jason]

This thread has inspired me to cook half a pound of bacon for dinner.

[FBM]

The report fails to point out that those who consume over 5.5 oz of bacon daily die early due to being smothered by their own awesomeness.

[pErvinalia]

[mistermack]

What's wrong with all of these techniques for living longer, is that you get the extra years at the shit end of your life. When you're old and feeble, and everything aches.
If you could give me an extra ten years in my twenties, I might be interested. But ten more old, knackered years waiting for death is no big deal.

(although I'm sure I'll change my mind on that when the day comes).

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What's wrong with all of these techniques for living longer, is that you get the extra years at the shit end of your life. When you're old and feeble, and everything aches.
If you could give me an extra ten years in my twenties, I might be interested. But ten more old, knackered years waiting for death is no big deal.

(although I'm sure I'll change my mind on that when the day comes).

Yer doin' it wrong. You put off being old and feeble by a decade or more when you stay fit during your youth. So the best years are extended.

[pErvinalia]

Yep. I wonder how many people make the same mistake in thinking as Mistermack just did?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If I wanted to extend my senility I'd either have drank a whole lot more than I did, or started reading the Daily Mail and watching Fox News religiously. That would front-load it nicely.

[Mallardz]

What's wrong with all of these techniques for living longer, is that you get the extra years at the shit end of your life. When you're old and feeble, and everything aches.
If you could give me an extra ten years in my twenties, I might be interested. But ten more old, knackered years waiting for death is no big deal.

(although I'm sure I'll change my mind on that when the day comes).

My thoughts every time someone tells me I'm taking years of my life.

[mistermack]

What's wrong with all of these techniques for living longer, is that you get the extra years at the shit end of your life. When you're old and feeble, and everything aches.
If you could give me an extra ten years in my twenties, I might be interested. But ten more old, knackered years waiting for death is no big deal.

(although I'm sure I'll change my mind on that when the day comes).

Yer doin' it wrong. You put off being old and feeble by a decade or more when you stay fit during your youth. So the best years are extended.

Yeh right. You put off being old and feeble by using up your young years doing excercise, instead of enjoying yourself.
Kind of defeats the object, unless you LIKE doing monotonous boring excercise.
And of course, there is the risk that you do all that fitness shit, and then die young of cancer, stroke, heart attack, car accident, food poisoning, murder, shame, embarassment, stupidity, or boredom. Which defeats the object.

I suppose, if you're the kind of mindless moron who excersises, then at least your life is going to FEEL like an eternity.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What's wrong with all of these techniques for living longer, is that you get the extra years at the shit end of your life. When you're old and feeble, and everything aches.
If you could give me an extra ten years in my twenties, I might be interested. But ten more old, knackered years waiting for death is no big deal.

(although I'm sure I'll change my mind on that when the day comes).

Yer doin' it wrong. You put off being old and feeble by a decade or more when you stay fit during your youth. So the best years are extended.

Yeh right. You put off being old and feeble by using up your young years doing excercise, instead of enjoying yourself.
Kind of defeats the object, unless you LIKE doing monotonous boring excercise.
And of course, there is the risk that you do all that fitness shit, and then die young of cancer, stroke, heart attack, car accident, food poisoning, murder, shame, embarassment, stupidity, or boredom. Which defeats the object.

I suppose, if you're the kind of mindless moron who excersises, then at least your life is going to FEEL like an eternity.

Perhaps you should just hurry up and die then. Save you a horrible life of living longer.

[FBM]