re: Study Find Preservatives in Bacon and Sausage Could Cause Type II diabetes

Yeah, of course.

If I buy oscar meyer/hillshire farms run of the mill bacon, I understand that I'm putting shite into my body. If I'm being honest, if I buy supermarket chicken/beef/turkey, I know that what they pump into their animals is also no good.

The way to circumvent this is growing your own food, raising your own meat/getting it from local farms, only buying staples at a grocer. This is not an easy thing to do, so we accept a little bit of risk.

If you're buying packaged bacon from Walmart and think you're health is on the up and up, you're woefully ignorant.

EDIT - This isn't the elite trying to get you to stop eating healthful food. This is common sense. There are no solutions to healthspan, only tradeoffs. Your body will feel better if you eat local, leaner cuts of meat with vegetables grown from your garden, baked or sauteed in oliveoil/beef tallow. Particularly if you've eaten less than optimal food your entire life, it won't taste as good as cornbread with fried chicken and green beans with bacon mixed in.

If you'd like to eat the latter every Sunday with a few cocktails, go ahead. Nobody here cares. But if that is your decision, and you decide to not moderate your intake and not do cardio/resistance training, your health span will be diminished and you're more likely to die a less than desirable death.

I don’t have diabetes.
With all the cracklins and sausage I have eaten one would think that I would have Mega Diabetes.
But I don’t .

I read the article. What am I missing?

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The researchers found those with a higher overall intake of nitrites - specifically from food additives - had a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes

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Then the next sentence:

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There was no association with nitrates and type 2 diabetes risk.

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Horse shite.

I eat no less than 2lbs of bacon a week. And at least a pack of sausage.

My blood glucose and cholesterol are perfect.

Good applewood bacon is one of the joys of life. Worth the risk. Just buy the better stuff.

So avoid bacon and just go for the cinnamon rolls and Frappuccino’s. Sounds like a plan.

I laughed because I used to take in sugar drinks and sweets snacks than anyone. Would make a gallon of sweet tea with 2 cups of sugar and drink it over 2 days. On top of 2-3 sodas and a couple of gatorades. Cookies, m&ms, and whatever else had sugar. And then a year and a half ago it caught up with me. A1C was 13.1. Big wake up call. I haven’t had a sugary drink since and stopped eating sugar snacks and desserts. My A1C went from 13.1 to 6.5 in 3 months and has stayed there since. Went from 225 to 180 and a BMI in normal range for the 1st time since my late 20s (I am 52.)

I’ve been eating bacon and sausage at least 2 days a week and it doesn’t seem to have been detrimental to my A1C. If I have any good advice to the overweight people just start with keeping processed sugar intake to a bare minimum if not eliminate altogether.

Questionnaire/epi studies. Yay.

Thanks Odysseus32. I missed the A vs. I…

My reading comprehension is off…