This Week in Bacon
It’s 2009. The most common New Year’s resolution people make is probably to get healthy or to lose weight. Deciding how to accomplish this is the hard part. You could do Atkins or South Beach or the Tabasco sauce/water/lemon diet. But those aren’t enjoyable, and they require too much effort. What if your diet could consist of something you actually LOVE to eat, like, say, bacon! Well, that’s exactly what a San Diego man decided to do: an all bacon, all the time diet.
The San Diego resident has embarked on a month-long “nothing but bacon” diet. He’s eating just over a pound of bacon a day–that’s bacon for every meal for all of February. Why? Well, as explained in an NBC video report, he’s an SD website personality, and the site’s readers have joined the rest of the country in having an obsession with the divine pork product. The fondness for pork fat inspired Nelson to go on a bacon-y trip down memory lane and then the idea of “the bacon diet” was born.
“There can never be too much bacon,” says the man who admits he’s “not a huge fan of vegetables.”
Sure, this sounds like a great diet, but the point of a diet is to get healthy, right? Is this realistic on a nothing-but-bacon diet?
Well, Nelson says he’s lost weight and his blood pressure has gone down. He attributes this partly to his getting full pretty fast and not leading him to eat starches. Nelson also rationalizes that “pork fat is very similar to olive oil,” so you’ve got “perfect proportion of protein and fat.”
It’s worth a try, right? Bacon: cheap, easy, and delicious. And if I can lower my blood pressure and lose weight . . . sounds like the perfect diet to me! Now, all I have to worry about is my cholesterol. And I’m pretty sure it’s not safe to continue the diet past a month . . . you remember what happened to Morgan Spurlock, from Super Size Me. You don’t want to end up like that.
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