Thread: Eating Bacon increases risk of Dementia say scientists

Eat BEEF!

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I don't (for the most part) but everyone else should

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

Life long vegetarian so I should be okay.

I think a far greater determinant of the development of dementia is brain usage. Keep your brain active, think creatively and take on endeavours that keep the brain involved and you're ahead of the game. Spend a lifetime sitting on the couch and watching t.v. and your a good candidate for dementia. The society which we live in generally speaking (in terms of employment in particular) really involves people turning off their thought processes and pretty much functioning as robots, that's a recipe for dementia) To some extent it's pretty much up to individual choices.

thanks for that advice Dr.Russ.

dementia is a choice.

Originally Posted by Grumpy John

So repeater must get through a *lot* of it. Perhaps whole pigs.

Demented fools!! everyone knows that eating figs is healthy.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

I think a far greater determinant of the development of dementia is brain usage.

Brain usage and development will give you what they call cognitive reserve, and help a lot to alleviate the development of certain types of dementia for some time, but it will not prevent it.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Eating Bacon increases risk of Dementia say scientists

Wondering what some politicians do eat...

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Wondering what some politicians do eat...

Wondering about the irony in how you managed to fuck that quote up.

Man, Bacon is outstanding. Good Hickory smoked, thick sliced. All you guys out there passing up on good tasting foods because some report says something and you hope you will live a few years longer by not eating it. Silly stuff. Have a fat 200 day aged Ribeye steak off the grill. Add crumbled bacon on your salad. knock back a good Whiskey afterwards.

I just had a quite delicious BLT sammy the other day.

Eating processed meats such as bacon

I guess it wouldn't induce such rile if the heading was 'Eating processed meats increases risk of dementia'.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

I'm not being critical of bacon consumers. I know people who will would die for bacon, I just don't have any appetite for it myself. I seriously doubt whether bacon consumption has anything to do with the development of dementia.
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Whew. Bet all those trained scientists are feeling pretty foolish right around now. Who knew that all they had to do was ask a failed English as a second language teacher and not actually conduct studies involving nearly half a million people.

^good thought.

Although, we may have to test run that

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Whew. Bet all those trained scientists are feeling pretty foolish right around now. Who knew that all they had to do was ask a failed English as a second language teacher and not actually conduct studies involving nearly half a million people.

I try my best. No sacrifice is to much if it benefits the overall health of peoplekind.

Originally Posted by russellsimpson

we may have to test run that

Hell Edmond there probably wouldn't be any point in a test run after all ^ ^ ^ .

^ 3 replies in a row, including quoting yourself.

Vegetarianism causes dementia.

Demented patients are attracted to Veganism.

Lettuces are trained killers in disguise.....

I believe it's put down to the sodium nitrite used in the curing process.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Vegetarianism causes dementia.

*Generalization Alert*

There have certainly been a few vegetarians here on TD that tend more toward the demented side.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

*Generalization Alert*

There have certainly been a few vegetarians here on TD that tend more toward the demented side.

Vegetarianism also causes irratibility and SADs.

That could be a reference to either Karen or xanax... Which underscores the point.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Reduce intake of "processed meat".

Whatever you decide that is. Personally my intake of processed "meat" definition is:

Salami
Bacon
Ham
Smoked fish
Anchovies in olive oil,

My intake of unprocessed "meat" is:

Chicken breast
Pork tenderloin and spare rib
Beef steak
Fresh fish

I eat all of that (sans the anchovies).....in moderation of course but will never stop. One thing that they never say or recommend is Moderation. They just post results and then say some stupid nonsense to some how validate their findings and like most of the information nowadays they sell fear coupled with some XXX university in XXX country did a study of 1200 people and the this is what the results show. It is statistically insignificant and quite frankly the study was a complete waste of time.


In many ways, everything we eat is processed to some degree or another unless you walk out, kill that pig and then go to your garden and pick those veggies. However the question then is, what did you feed your pig?

As for Vegetarians...to each their own. I know quite a few committed Vegetarians. Most I cannot be around because you can't go anywhere with them as they order a meal and they have a list of shit they will not eat and its embarrassing to watch that poor waiter have to write it all down knowing that something will be wrong when it hits the table.

...and its embarrassing to watch that poor waiter have to write it all down knowing that something will be wrong when it hits the table.

So just offer them an apple.....can't go wrong with that!

Er, the "scientists" quoted in the OP as reported in the Septic journal are in fact a Leeds university cohort under the guidance of a professor who herself stated they are not positing a finding but were simply laying the ground for a hypothesis.

Also, of those in the study group who consumed sodium nitrate in their diet, in the form of processed meats etc, and were later diagnosed as suffering from dementia, most, if not all, were lower class ditch-digging lumpen oiks who smoked and drank to excess. Essentially, the bedrock of the lower end of Western society which are also addicted to carbohydrates and lumps of fat in fast food regimes.

Quite why they picked on one rasher of bacon as a cause of dementia is a mystery. Really, it would have been more enlightening and accurate if they were to say that if you voted to Brexit or for Trump then the odds are that you will be bouncing off the walls in later life if not already.