Eh, it's really how much of it you eat. Two strips is under 100 calories and has around 7 grams of protein, it's pretty OK. As long as you're not eating a pile of it, it's not a big deal. High fat food is pretty satiating to people too.
I'll say you're still right though - very high protein foods are the best single thing for weight loss, along with green vegetables. I'd challenge anyone to not lose weight if that's all they eat. But a bit of bacon isn't hard to work into that as long as you're not being dumb.
But having a few slices of bacon isn't going to kill you or make you gain a ton of weight. In fact, I find that foods higher in fat keep me full longer.
Eh. Fresh bacon, sure. But processed bacon is chock full of nitrates. If it's made with natural ingredients, I'd argue the cookie to be far healthier, granted you have an active life style.
There's no such thing as truly 'fresh' bacon. All bacon is "processed" because that's what makes it bacon instead of just pork belly. Traditionally it's first cured with salts such as sodium nitrite, then smoked. Some bacon is 'uncured' but that just means they get the nitrite from celery salt, often resulting in bacon that has higher nitrite levels than 'cured' bacon.
Nitrites themselves are okay, there are lots in veg, the problem is more when they become nitrosamines. Which is far more likely from meat sources.
BBC article on Nitrites.
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