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Is it OK "health wise" to eat one or two bacon strips or 2 sausages a day? I eat one or the other with 2 hard boiled eggs everyday. It really helps with me with the protein amount. I can't have dairy, and soy or whey protein powders and i don't feel like eating chicken for breakfast.
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I like chicken sausage. lower cals/fat. Still yummy.2
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do they fit your calories and macros for the day/week? are you eating a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg?5
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Certainly it's fine. Why wouldn't it be?1
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TavistockToad wrote: »do they fit your calories and macros for the day/week? are you eating a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg?
Yes they fit and yes I'm eating plenty of fruits and vegs. I just heard they can cause cancer.2 -
TavistockToad wrote: »do they fit your calories and macros for the day/week? are you eating a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg?
Yes they fit and yes I'm eating plenty of fruits and vegs. I just heard they can cause cancer.
everything causes cancer these days...7 -
That's fine. For me to get the protein I want for Saturday breakfast, I nail it with 3 strips of bacon and 2 eggs fried in the bacon fat. The veg and fruit can just wait. And as for bologna, the warning of nitrates in bologna causing cancer is way older than Netflix. I don't include bologna in my meal plans during this part of my life, but I certainly did consume 1 lb of bologna each week during the decades of my obesity.5
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Is it OK "health wise" to eat one or two bacon strips or 2 sausages a day? I eat one or the other with 2 hard boiled eggs everyday. It really helps with me with the protein amount. I can't have dairy, and soy or whey protein powders and i don't feel like eating chicken for breakfast.
Ever try turkey bacon or turkey sausage?2 -
Weekend brunch has bacon and either waffles or potatoes (I don't like eggs). My weekday meals are boring, just oatmeal and milk.
And Braaaaiiinnnnnssss11 -
richardgavel wrote: »Is it OK "health wise" to eat one or two bacon strips or 2 sausages a day? I eat one or the other with 2 hard boiled eggs everyday. It really helps with me with the protein amount. I can't have dairy, and soy or whey protein powders and i don't feel like eating chicken for breakfast.
Ever try turkey bacon or turkey sausage?
I bet i would like them. It's not really the calories I'm concerned about. It was cause they are so processed and contain nitraites.0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »do they fit your calories and macros for the day/week? are you eating a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and veg?
Yes they fit and yes I'm eating plenty of fruits and vegs. I just heard they can cause cancer.
everything causes cancer these days...
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Is it OK "health wise" to eat one or two bacon strips or 2 sausages a day? I eat one or the other with 2 hard boiled eggs everyday. It really helps with me with the protein amount. I can't have dairy, and soy or whey protein powders and i don't feel like eating chicken for breakfast.
http://www.aicr.org/enews/2014/08-august/faq-processed-meat-and.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm4_FvZyb1wIVDluGCh2RvgEUEAAYASAAEgL7qfD_BwE
Research suggests that regularly eating even small amounts of cold cuts, bacon, sausage and hot dogs increase colorectal cancer risk, which is why AICR recommends avoiding these foods, except for special occasions.
https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/world-health-organization-says-processed-meat-causes-cancer.html
Twenty-two experts from 10 countries reviewed more than 800 studies to reach their conclusions. They found that eating 50 grams of processed meat every day increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%. That’s the equivalent of about 4 strips of bacon or 1 hot dog. For red meat, there was evidence of increased risk of colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.
Overall, the lifetime risk of someone developing colon cancer is 5%. To put the numbers into perspective, the increased risk from eating the amount of processed meat in the study would raise average lifetime risk to almost 6%.15 -
I, personally have a serving of bacon or sausage every morning.
I have serious genetic cancer risk to basically every part of my body. I might as well enjoy food while I'm on earth.9 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Is it OK "health wise" to eat one or two bacon strips or 2 sausages a day? I eat one or the other with 2 hard boiled eggs everyday. It really helps with me with the protein amount. I can't have dairy, and soy or whey protein powders and i don't feel like eating chicken for breakfast.
http://www.aicr.org/enews/2014/08-august/faq-processed-meat-and.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm4_FvZyb1wIVDluGCh2RvgEUEAAYASAAEgL7qfD_BwE
Research suggests that regularly eating even small amounts of cold cuts, bacon, sausage and hot dogs increase colorectal cancer risk, which is why AICR recommends avoiding these foods, except for special occasions.
https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/world-health-organization-says-processed-meat-causes-cancer.html
Twenty-two experts from 10 countries reviewed more than 800 studies to reach their conclusions. They found that eating 50 grams of processed meat every day increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%. That’s the equivalent of about 4 strips of bacon or 1 hot dog. For red meat, there was evidence of increased risk of colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.
Overall, the lifetime risk of someone developing colon cancer is 5%. To put the numbers into perspective, the increased risk from eating the amount of processed meat in the study would raise average lifetime risk to almost 6%.
Thank you for this part, since the news reports always latch onto the larger number (the perceived number) and almost never report the actual increase in risk... it is always more alarming and gets way more attention to report the perceived number vs the actual risk increase.11 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »Is it OK "health wise" to eat one or two bacon strips or 2 sausages a day? I eat one or the other with 2 hard boiled eggs everyday. It really helps with me with the protein amount. I can't have dairy, and soy or whey protein powders and i don't feel like eating chicken for breakfast.
http://www.aicr.org/enews/2014/08-august/faq-processed-meat-and.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm4_FvZyb1wIVDluGCh2RvgEUEAAYASAAEgL7qfD_BwE
Research suggests that regularly eating even small amounts of cold cuts, bacon, sausage and hot dogs increase colorectal cancer risk, which is why AICR recommends avoiding these foods, except for special occasions.
https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/world-health-organization-says-processed-meat-causes-cancer.html
Twenty-two experts from 10 countries reviewed more than 800 studies to reach their conclusions. They found that eating 50 grams of processed meat every day increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%. That’s the equivalent of about 4 strips of bacon or 1 hot dog. For red meat, there was evidence of increased risk of colorectal, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.
Overall, the lifetime risk of someone developing colon cancer is 5%. To put the numbers into perspective, the increased risk from eating the amount of processed meat in the study would raise average lifetime risk to almost 6%.
Just to highlight, in case someone didn't read all the way to the bottom.5 -
I love me a bacon thread!
Seriously, though, it's hard to make a definitive declaration apart from context. If bacon and sausage help you balance your macros, that's good. (Personally, I rely on high fat snacks because my meals tend to be too low on fat.) How much red meat & meat processed with nitrates are in your diet in addition to this breakfast food? If the daily nitrates are a concern, how would you feel about rotating them with other meats that aren't cured? Eggs with crab cakes are pretty yummy. Shrimp salads are often garnished with hard boiled egg. Pulled pork hash with eggs is a family favorite at home, although in restaurants they do like chicken at breakfast (fried, with waffles, so not the macros you're going for). One of my quick favorites is hard boiled eggs on 100g black beans -- packed with fiber and more protein but less fat than bacon gives you.
A wide variety of foods is considered healthy in part because it captures a broader spectrum of micronutrients but also because it dilutes the risks of any particular food.1 -
I like to have bacon & eggs but also like to have oatmeal with fresh fruit and nuts just to balance it out.1
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You could also buy uncured versions of the bacon and sausage which would not have the nitrates/nitrites in them.8
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I love me a bacon thread!
Seriously, though, it's hard to make a definitive declaration apart from context. If bacon and sausage help you balance your macros, that's good. (Personally, I rely on high fat snacks because my meals tend to be too low on fat.) How much red meat & meat processed with nitrates are in your diet in addition to this breakfast food? If the daily nitrates are a concern, how would you feel about rotating them with other meats that aren't cured? Eggs with crab cakes are pretty yummy. Shrimp salads are often garnished with hard boiled egg. Pulled pork hash with eggs is a family favorite at home, although in restaurants they do like chicken at breakfast (fried, with waffles, so not the macros you're going for). One of my quick favorites is hard boiled eggs on 100g black beans -- packed with fiber and more protein but less fat than bacon gives you.
A wide variety of foods is considered healthy in part because it captures a broader spectrum of micronutrients but also because it dilutes the risks of any particular food.
Yea. I could try the beans good idea! I dont eat other nitrate foods just on occasion. If i do eat a hotdog I'll be sure not to eat bacon or sausage for breakfast. That's just too much grease!1 -
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