What If You Eat BACON Every Day For 30 Days?

Hello Health Champions. Today we're going to  talk about bacon and what would happen if you  

ate bacon every day for 30 days. There are so  many misconceptions about bacon. If you do a  

search for fat in cooked bacon for example the  very first thing that pops up is saturated fat  

in cooked bacon because we have this phobia this  cultural phobia of saturated fat there are certain  

things that we've heard so many times that they  have been conditioned not because they're true but  

we take them as true because we've heard them so  often and then it becomes a cultural belief that  

is so hard to break i found this article that says  can bacon be part of a healthy diet they're very  

concerned because they're saying there's a bacon  explosion in America they're saying they're baking  

recipes sweeping the blogosphere they're saying  that fast food restaurants are offering double  

bacon burgers and they're even putting bacon in  chocolate bars and again they're focusing on the  

bacon as being the bad thing a little bit down the  page they're asking just how unhealthy is bacon  

and if you were to ask a straight question  it would be is bacon healthy or unhealthy  

but again they're feeding in to this cultural  belief it's a presupposition we're assuming  

already that bacon is unhealthy the only question  is just how unhealthy is it they're saying 68  

percent of bacon's calories come from fat and  almost half of that is saturated so again it's a  

preconceived notion we're already believing that  fat is bad because we've heard it so many times  

and in each ounce of bacon you get 30 milligrams  of cholesterol scary word and if you have eggs  

with it then there's more cholesterol there  and eating these saturated fats will raise  

your cholesterol levels increasing your risk  of heart disease and stroke but this is old  

information this is a cultural belief based on  information from 50 60 70 years ago and in fact  

they never found any causal link between saturated  fat and heart disease but it's one of these things  

that it just takes generations to get rid of even  when the good new information is available and in  

fact the opposite is true that if you eat more  saturated fat but you lay off some carbohydrates  

and some sugar then your insulin levels are going  to go down and insulin is responsible for all  

of the metabolic syndrome that is responsible  for heart disease and stroke and if you watch  

more videos like this and read some comments then  you'll find out that there are millions of people  

who are eating more fat more saturated fat  and they're reversing all their risk markers  

for heart disease so am i saying that bacon is  the perfect food no i think it's an okay food  

but it's not the saturated fat what you want to  watch out for is if they load it up with too much  

sugar now typically you're not going to eat enough  bacon and they don't put all that much sugar in it  

for sugar to become a problem if you have a few  slices you probably get about one gram of sugar  

and that's not a big deal unless you eat a bunch  of other sugar along with it what you also want to  

be concerned with is preservatives and nitrates  as well as any other chemicals that they might  

put in there so you just want to be careful get a  good quality product read the labels and the fewer  

ingredients in that bacon the better the bigger  issue is what we have with it if some people order  

this they might think that bacon is the worst  part of this when it might be the best thing  

the worst things would probably be the bun the  sugar in the dressing the French fries that you  

might eat with it and the soda that often comes  along with it as well and why then is that such a  

big deal why are these the villains because they  promote insulin and insulin resistance the bun  

and the sugar and virtually everything in there  the fries they are full of glucose they're full of  

starch that breaks down into glucose and of course  that becomes blood sugar and stimulate insulin the  

sugar is going to drive insulin in itself because  half of it is glucose but the other half 50  

glucose 50 fructose and the fructose is almost as  bad on the liver as alcohol it is going to clog  

up the liver and it promotes insulin resistance  as well and if you eat all those carbohydrates  

then the fat becomes a bad thing because  your body is busy burning the carbohydrates  

and then it can't burn through it can't use that  saturated fat the way it's intended for fuel  

and also because insulin is a storage hormone high  levels of insulin is going to prevent fat burning  

when it comes to food we have to start looking at  the big picture so many people are asking well is  

this food good is this food bad and yes there  are good and bad foods these processed foods  

there's not really anything good about them but  for the most part it's about the dose how much  

of something are we getting if there's one gram  of sugar in a food i don't really care because  

it's not going to hurt the big picture how often  are we getting that dose what are the mechanisms  

how does the body react to these things  and we also have to start understanding  

individuality we have to understand that  we react differently that one person can  

eat certain things that will totally mess  up another person i had one patient who was  

very very diligent about keto low carb  intermittent fasting but he could not  

get his fasting blood sugar down after many  many weeks finally we kind of took a closer  

look and i asked is there anything else and he  said well just these apple cider vinegar gummies  

and these vitamin d gummy bears so they were two  of each for a total of four gummy bears two grams  

of sugar in each eight grams of sugar and that  totally messed up his whole metabolic system  

for another person that was better at processing  carbohydrate that might not even have been a blip  

on the radar but for this guy it made all  the difference he cut those gummy bears out  

and his blood sugar went from 130 to 90 in a week  so let's look at an example if we eat some bacon  

and then we eat some bread and we eat some sugar  like a fast food meal then that's not so great  

but if someone was to have a salad with some  bread and some sugar then that's still not great  

but it would actually be a whole lot better  why is that because the bread and the sugar  

is going to stimulate a lot of insulin in both  cases and that high insulin is going to keep us  

from burning through the fat in the bacon and if  we have the same insulin levels now from bread  

and sugar then a salad is going to be a whole  lot better because you don't have to burn  

through a salad there's nothing there in the first  place so bacon is a much more concentrated food  

that we can burn through we can use that fat if  insulin levels are low if insulin levels are high  

still not good but it's better than with the salad  what would be even better of course is if we cut  

out those things all together that promote  insulin and we eat the bacon and the salad  

so that's the main thing to understand about fat  is you can eat quite a bit of fat as long as you  

don't eat foods that trigger insulin because the  insulin is going to keep you from burning the fat  

so you can increase the fat but then you have to  decrease the carbs significantly at the same time  

sometimes you hear people talking about  a low-carb diet where you're still eating  

20 30 40 of your calories from carbohydrate  that is not a low carbohydrate diet it is not  

low enough for most people because you're still  going to keep those insulin levels too high  

to actually use up that fat so what would happen  then if you ate bacon every day for 30 days well  

don't expect a miracle it's probably not gonna  revolutionize your life you're probably not gonna  

reverse a whole bunch of conditions I'm not trying  to say that but if you like it then you can eat  

bacon every day for 30 days you don't have to be  afraid of it right there's nothing wrong with it  

you just have to buy a good quality of bacon  you want to make sure it doesn't have a bunch  

of chemicals and things in it and then along with  it you eat a variety of foods don't eat only bacon  

eat it with a salad eat something else as well  and the good part now though is if you were to eat  

a little bit more bacon than you have and then  that helps you eat less of something else like  

sugar or carbohydrates then that's a good thing  because bacon is very satisfying it's very filling  

and therefore it's probably going to decrease  the insulin if it can help you reduce the carbs  

and then you get more stable blood sugar blood  glucose and if you have more stable blood sugar  

you'll probably notice more stable energy levels  and overall you just happen to feel better and  

you also will probably notice that you have  less cravings you have more control over your  

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