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Originally Posted by Mister Coaster
Bacon isn't supposed to be a staple of a diet, but a beautiful and necessary escape for those who choose wisely to indulge with care. Besides, the human body REQUIRES both sodium and fats to properly operate. Can you think of a better way to get both? Besides, it's low carb!
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First of all, no one said you had to eat lots of bacon to be able to share your bacon tips on this thread. Second, let's be a bit more careful with how we perceive bacon's nutritional value.... Sure the body requires sodium, but the typical Western diet is already loaded with it outside of bacon intake. And a lot of the fat in bacon is saturated; 100g of it can have anywhere between 8g and 10g of saturated fat (back bacon being an exception), keeping in mind a healthful daily limit of this kind of fat is about 16g or less. The sodium in bacon is between 1500mg and 2000mg of sodium, with a RDA of 2400mg. Given a modest serving of bacon (30g), this is still at around 3g of saturated fat and 500mg of sodium. So if you had bacon for breakfast, you would need to consider the rest of your food intake for the day: no more than 13g of saturated fats and 1500mg of sodium. If you eat bacon daily and are a meat lover...this might be a concern. This serving of bacon has 11g fat and 11g of protein, but as a percentage of calories, this is 68% fat. There is a reason why bacon belongs in the fat group rather than the meat group. And what did you imply by low "carb"? The human body requires
way more carbohydrates than both sodium and fat combined. So, yes, I can think of better ways to get fat and sodium in my diet. A cup of boiled spinach, for example, has over 500mg of sodium. To this, I would add 1tsp of olive oil, which has 6g of fat, less than 1g of which is saturated.
Delicious, yes. Quite. It is up there with other delicious substances such as hollandaise sauce. When you suggest "wise indulgence," I agree. I wouldn't eat bacon daily, for instance. Once or twice a week, maybe. But in my own case, once or twice a month is more than enough.
Oh, and btw, that
is one hell of a kabob you recommend.