Processed meats are a cancer risk

[Clipper]

Well there is this: www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sausages-processed-meats-cancer-risk-smoking-says-who

And then there is this paranoid conspiracy theory by a Tasmanian senator LOL: www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/10/27/lambie-claims-who-report-bacon-first-step-towards-sharia-law

But here is the woman whose favorite breakfast menu I will be following: www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/06/worlds-oldest-woman-116-eats-bacon-everyday/73444660/

I love a good fresh lettuce wedge salad with freshly crumbled blue cheese in the dressing, sprinkled with crumbled crispy bacon. One of my favorite lunches is a BLT or a club sandwich with two or three strips of bacon. What makes homefries any more tasty than a small dab of bacon grease added to the oil when you cook the potatoes? Last but no least is the Southern favorite bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit.

As long as my cholesterol numbers are within guidelines I will continue to enjoy my bacon, my eggs, my sausage, and my real creamery butter. My bacon consumption is actually fairly limited, as is my consumption of hot dogs. I eat breakfast sausage quite often but much of it is my own recipe and home made, without nitrates, nitrites or preservatives. Anyone can make breakfast sausage if they have a meat grinder, a stainless steel bowl, and a few ziploc freezer bags, and a person can make and package 10lbs of it in about 1/2 hour.

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I hate peeling carrots because they scream in pain as I rip the flesh off their little bodies.

[kit]

Alan, don't peel the carrots... just scrub them (no soap, please). They like that.

[dave]

Well, there is at least ONE benefit to being 72 years old. The damage is already done ... to my lungs, arteries, heart, G.I. etc. I suppose that within reason I can eat what I want at this point.

[Clipper]

I agree Dave. I smoked for 45 yrs before I quit in 2006, but I still feel the effects and still get winded with heavy exertion. I have always eaten the wrong things in higher than recommended quantities. I have always been a big breakfast eater and love my sausage, bacon, or ham along with eggs and buttered toast. I also love red meat and the redder the better. In recent years I have started eating a lot more vegetables, and green salads, and watch my calorie intake, fat intake, and sodium intake the rest of the day. Having drank for several years, and smoked for way too many years, I simply try to moderate to a certain extent, with the idea in mind that I would rather drop over with a heart attack and be dead when I hit the floor than to waste away slowly and painfully.

I am of the opinion that if you can't enjoy life, life is hardly worth living. If I had to live out my remaining years on leafy green veggies and tofu I would probably jump off a bridge, haha.

[dave]

I have this picture of myself slurping up the remains of a chocolate milk shake before I hopped over the rail.