Itās cured fatty meat.
Too much of it isnāt going to be great no matter what you do.
The thing is, fat isnāt all that bad for you. The idea that fat is unhealthy is mostly dead outside of sugar lobbyists. Itās sugar that you really have to look out for.
Salt is also likely not as bad as reporting used to make it out to be. It causes short term blood pressure increases, but potentially not long term and also we donāt know the direction of causation with that and heart disease.
Basically, donāt over-indulge, but bacon probably isnāt going to kill you.
Animal fat that has been cooked to temperature is absolutely fucking horrible for you.
Youāre thinking of plant-based omega-fats which are essential for health.
Thereās some evidence some animal fats may be the cause of cardiovascular disease, but it isnāt great. There are a lot of confounding factors involved.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053258/#sec-a.d.jtitle
(Thereās a lot more detail above where this links, but I linked to the end.)
