I have high BP and have no problem eating turkey bacon. We have for years and enjoy it.

However, my great grandma ate 2 eggs, 3 bacon slices, hashbrowns, 2 pieces of toast, and 2 cups of coffee every day of her life since childhood. She lived to be 99.

She attributed it to clean living, working her farm (her garden later in life when she sold off her land), eating good homemade southern food, and going to church every week.

She never owned anything technological accept a phone and a radio. Always had somebody drive her. No road rage.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all live like that.

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I 've noted all the pro & cons and sympathize with those addicted to the taste; however, as a metaphysician there is one scientific fact unknown to the populace. PORK is left-spin, HU-MANS are right-spin ELECTROLYTES. THIS MEANS... ANTI-ENLIGHTMENT -against higher consciousness.
We are spirtual beings and need to live as such--- respect ALL life.

butterball turkey bacon is the
best. I bake it on a cookie
sheet in the oven, the whole
pkg. then freeze and take out what I need. It makes a great
BLT sandwich. Jeno bacon smells really bad when you cook it.

why all the cynicism about the food thing?Commoon sense tells us live food is good. Processed??????But some of the comments about religion?
God created and knows what's good for us.He also sent His Son to die so that we could live eternally if we repent and accept Him. This is not radicalism. Be assured God's word will be the Final Word.Love is the key---His Love!!!!!!!

recently bought some turkey bacon and some, well! I actually had to cancel my planned day. The dizziness and the ill feeling was too much to handle. Guess even turkey bacon isnt for all. I take medication for blood pressure, perhaps that was the problem.

Hey! The best one out there is BUTERBALL brand Turkey Bacon! It's crispy and it smells like real bacon. Stores in Southern California don't seem to stock it regularly. It was easy to find when I lived on the East Coast.

At a young eighty, I've eaten the ready cooked bacon since it first came out. It's delicious and so easy. Just microwave ten seconds or so to crisp it up.I can have a BLT anytime in seconds and no MESSY cleanup !

Hmm. Sesame seeds are great, but they don't taste like bacon to me! I eat both turkey bacon and soy bacon (occasionally) and they're a good substitute, but they aren't like the real thing. Which I also indulge in (VERY occasionally!)

It isn't only the nitrites that are bad for you. Did you ever think of what the pig eats? Yuck! I eat Neiman Ranch All Vegetarian Feed No Nitrites Bacon. They sell it at Trader Joe's. It is the real thing and it's great.

Just what are the drawbacks to soy products, especially milk?

Why wasn't beef bacon tested? I used to eat it all the time in South Carolina - great stuff! Tasted like the real thing, fried up like the real thing, and considerably less fat.

Those of you worried about your health and the effects of saturated fat should read the following website:
http://www.mercola.com/2002/aug/17/saturated_fat1.htm

Then look into the TNT diet from Men's Health.

It's not the fat, it's the processed carbs that are going to kill you.

Morningstar??!?!? U gotta be kidding! Wife & I tried it, it is BARELY edible. Tastes like bacon flavored cardboard. I watch what I eat, but if I want bacon, I'll eat bacon, 2 or 3 strips once or twice a month won't take even a few minutes off my life, thanks.

dudes and dudettes

I live in the woods and stick or shoot everything I eat, If i see a wild pig come runnin under my tree, that bitch is breakfast:)

OMG-some of you people are absurd, I think you can have regular bacon as long as you eat it in moderation, i mean you shouldn't be eating it everyday anyway... Sure good though.

For those of you who are watching fat, sodium and cholesterol and just want to add the flavor of bacon. Try the Hormel Real Crumbled Bacon bits. You find it in the salad dressing section of the store, thats right on the shelf not in the refrigerated section. Real bacon, only 1.5 grams of fat, per tablespoon serving, it is more than you think if you are making an eggbeaters sandwich. Makes it taste a whole lot better. It has only 0.5 grams saturated fat 10mg cholesterol and 190mg sodium. I only use not even a teaspoon with the egg product for a sandwich and it gives plenty of flavor. On the whole you cant beat it. I also add it to green beans, fresh of course or frozen. A little goes a long way. Enjoy!

Good morning !
I recently found RealAge -- absolutely love the information on the site and have been reading the comments about turkey bacon. I haven't eaten pork for some years now and can tell when I do (I feel "yucky"). I discovered that if you pan fry the turkey bacon in a little butter it does crisp nicely. So enjoy people !!

How can you even begin to suggest that veggie bacon is even remotely healthy. Textured vegetable or soy protein!!! Come on people, that stuff is seriously bad for you - it's a great source of free glutamic acid, the bad stuff in MSG. SOY BACON IS NOT A HEALTHY ALTERNATIVE. I'll take my chances with the saturated fat and sodium thanks.

I am a member of realage.com and really enjoy the site, some great info. How can I read The China Study, from Joe Howard on 3/2/08, I hope it's readable on the computer.
Thanks Char

I haven't eaten bacon since I read Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher". There's just something about someone eating it raw and then puking that is very off-putting. But it still smells good when it is cooking.

I buy whatever turkey bacon is the cheapest, usually Kroger store brand. I cook it on paper towels in the microwave, 1 minute for each slice plus 15 seconds. We haven't had any else for years. It is usually very crisp. It will stick to the paper towels if you don't remove it right away.

What about Bob Evans Bacon and/or sausage? I usually go out on weekends and have either the sausage or bacon with eggs and potatoes. Damn that sounds good. Dr. OZ may snatch the fork from my mouth but damn that is good with a little hot sauce on it!

After surgery from being shot down in Viet Nam, my surgeon told me that the difference between a healthy diet and bad diet may be about six months of life. So eat what you like and enjoy life, within reason.

At 71, I had a medium stroke. After smoking since I was 13, I quit 10 years ago. Cold Turkey.
My favorite sandwich was a bacon and mayonnaise sandwich. Now I can't wait to try Morning Star bacon, or something without fat or sodium, once a year of course. I've been using Olivio trans fat and cholesterol free butter.
It's quite good.
Lynn

Yeah Erica chill, the guy is right know what you are saying before you say it. Radicalism is not cool. What bout all the aboriginal and indigenious peoples of Africa, South America and Austrailia that have no choice? I mean, in Europe all over Europe pork is VERY popular... often with Muslims and Jews it is not. I love religion, but not fanatiscism, I was vegan for 5 years so I can say that you need to realize that closing yourself off and judging everyone and everything will get you a place you will regret.

Bacon...4 years.
hmmm....I'll take the bacon and you can have the 4 years. It's just not that important to me!!
As for pigs not sweating??? WHO REALLY CARES!!!

Erica is just a misguided old testament christian that takes the bible EXTREMELY literal. It's a Cole's Notes for life people, grow up.

WoW!!! Erika, Are you vegan?. Maybe you should be. Chickens and fish do not have sweat glands either :-) BTW Chickens dont even urinate.
Please know what you are saying before you say it :-)

Just don't eat pork!!! UGH-these animals were "not created to be consumed" by humans.They are "scavengers" to clean the Earth. Pigs have no sweat glands-thus all the s___t they eat.... you eat!

I eat bacon once a week (Saturday mornings when I have time to cook breakfast). My bacon of choice is Oscar Meyer Low Sodium, and I cook it in the microwave in a special microwave safe bacon 'holder' until it is so crispy, it snaps apart when you bend it (I would guess 95% of the fat drips down and away from the bacon). Combined with egg beaters, skim milk, 1/2 a grapefruit, and whole wheat toast, this makes for a very healthful, low calorie breakfast. Everything in moderation!

Interesting and worth the reading.
Mom

Processed meats like bacon should still be limited because the increased risk for cancer because of the preservatives. Even with reduced fat it is not a healthy food.
The American Institute for Cancer Research website has more information.

Processed meats like bacon should still be limited because the increased risk for cancer because of the preservatives. Even with reduced fat it is not a healthy food.
The American Institute for Cancer Research website has more information.

I can not believe anyone that was hungry for bacon would eat something made from turkey. That is not bacon! I like mine very crispy. I cook mine under the broiler so all the fat drips away. It is great.

This discussion is already 5 mos long and a real hodgepodge of beliefs and health needs. Some are very good like the 1:8 ratio of feed to animal product and "eat in moderation".
As a public health nutritionist, I never understood the "need" for bacon in the first place: it is just fat and salt with flavor. Our ancestors probably needed the fat and didn't waste any part of the animal. Look at the protein content. Yet some mothers feed it to their toddlers as a MEAT. If you want a high salt, high fat breakfast meat, eat sausage instead. If you want the bacon flavor in a recipe, buy bacon bits. Bacon is "much todo about nothing" when it comes to nutrition. I know the pig had a better diet.

WellshireThick Sliced Dry Rubbed
Pork Bacon Beats all of the on the
List . 2 Slices 60 calories, Fat 3g
Sat.Fat 1.5g, Sodium 220mg,
Protein 4g.
Ingredients. Pork, Sea Salt,
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How can it be called bacon if it's made from turkey?!

Only bacon from a pig can be called bacon.

Call that turkey bacon stuff more like turkey strips NOT bacon!

For those concerned about soy, the concern is real - very real. Soy can have a devastating effect on your thyroid gland (and, hence, your metabolism)
so I would say if you MUST have bacon, go with the real deal but try to make it low sodium.

To get crispy turkey bacon, cook it in a counter top gril. It is delicious.

Hmm, I have never figured out why my parents and my in-law parents all lived to be OVER!!! 90 years of age and never worried about that bacon they ate that was actually stored in fat and never refrigerated....

Oh yeah now I remember why, they didn't eat all that processed crap you buy in the store and they weren’t fat lazy Americans.

Oh yeah the rub of the story. We like our conveniences and the ability to be lazy rather than toil for our food and comforts. So we get to pay for it by polluting our genetic pool with WEAKNESS and each generation suffers more and more...

I will eat what my body asks for and I will work it off the proper way with good honest labor and sweat...

Eat Natural, work hard , be honest and stay healthy.

From a midwesterner

Is anyone concerned about sodium content?

Is anyone concerned abuot sodium content?

I didn't see any mention of beef bacon. That's what we eat and it's very tasty. It fries up crispy like pork bacon, but is a little bit chewier. The brand available here is Gwalatney.

if you take kelation herbs and hydrate it will all flush out anyways

The Butterball turkey bacon is pretty good, but the Butterball turkey sausages are great!!

The Butterball turkey bacon is pretty good, but the Butterball turkey sausages are great!!

Jane Garwood,March 03.03.08
You are so right. I did reply but I think in the wrong place.
Nothing will replace the real "Mc Coy so out with the Soy" A car will probably do it in far less time, so we gamble a year and enjoy. My Father and Mother both hit the 90's.
Brian Hewson. South Africa.

Try the Butter Ball turkey bacon, its good and its only $1 at the dollar store!
Also we don't eat bacon that often, but we will eat the REAL THING along with my brown eggs and green tea.

Isn't it better all around to have peameal bacon?

I'm with Jim: A strip or two of the real thing once or twice a month is worth it and satisfies best.

Bill, I agree! I fix crisp-cooked Wrights or Farmland bacon a couple times a week, along with my brown eggs and cup of Brazilian real coffee. Life is good!!

It never ceases to amaze me how fear mongering over soy products continues, despite the fact that not one shred of scientific evidence exists that shows them to be at all harmful!

I personally wonder why CRISP bacon is so popular..I like mine "wavy"..it sounds like some of these substitutes would be just the thing for me..the rare times I order bacon, I have to tell them "soft", and even then it often is only good for bacon bits for a salad!..if it breaks when you bite it, it's over-done..

I would love to try this Morning Star Bacon, but , please, can you mail me a selling point of this pruduct in France, Basse Normany?

I would love to try this Morning Star Bacon, but , please, can you mail me a selling point of this pruduct in France, Basse Normany?

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It's still butchery, though. Especially the poor turkeys. I'm surprised Alice allows it in her restaurant. C'mon Alice. Toasted sesame seeds, eh ? Sounds tasty.

The worst think about Bacon is not the fat but the nitrates that cause Cancer. There are many brands now that do not contain nitrates, and, if eaten in moderation, 2 slices, with not do harm. Soy products are not a safer alternative, most soy is genetically modified and the cause of many health problems, not the answer to them.

Baking turkey bacon at a high temperature(425) for about 10 minutes results in crisp strips. It stays that way when cold as long as you don't reheat it.

Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray, lay down the strips and spray the tops. Bake for about five minutes, turn and continue baking until dark brown. Great for breakfast and a BLT later or the next day.

When cooking turkey bacon, put it on a paper towel with one covering it into the microwave. 6 pieces at high for 6 minutes yields totally crispy bacon and wicks away any additional fat drippings. I put them in a baggie on top by the snack shelf and help myself when I need a crunchy snack fix.

I'm a personal trainer specializing in Seniors training. I am also a retired teacher in health education an athlete and coach. The answer to all regarding bacon and food in general is that you can have an occassional BLT with the real bacon. On the other hand if your going to have it 2 or 3 times a week it's probably better to be prudent and have one of the other kinds that elimnates the salt and fat content. Remember all things in moderation. Don't go all one way or the other. Don't turn your eating habits into a science project. Lighten up!

I have been a vegetarian for over 10 years, and have adapted to most GOOD foods. I discovered Morningstar products years ago, and an well pleased with most of their products. I love their bacon and have it regularly.

I have also found a good sub for butter. It's from Smart Beat, and called Smart Squeeze. Try it.

what about organic bacon, no nitrates sea salt nothing like the real thing

My Answer to the World's Coming Food Crisis

I have a point of view I wish to share with all of you. You can mention me. It is about the hidden wealth related to soy!

I read carefully the article by Tom Dyson on "The
Answer to the World's Coming Food Crisis" published at the Daily Wealth (editorialfeedback@dailyw ealth.com . I do not
only agree but I have a contribution to share. The
fact is that beyond the foreseen shortage of water and
food there is already a not mentioned related problem:
cardiovascular disease!

The solution to this problem brings together important
help to the solution of environmental and even social
problems. The ones who invest properly on this subject
will develop wealth for themselves and for the world
human society.

So, to invest in the production of veggie beef, veggie
hamburgers and so on instead of feeding cattle, fowl
and porks will cut production costs and increase gains
manyfolds. Let us see: Accordingly to Tom Dyson we
need 8 Kg of grain to produce 1Kg of meet. So, it is
possible to produce near to 8Kg of soy beef with 8 Kg
of soy! Such product will be sold not merely as a
price competitive veggie beef product but as a REMEDY
to prevent and help to the cure of cardiovascular
disease! This simply means that the value of such
product is much higher, the production costs can be
significantly lower, the final consumer price also high and obviously the profits much
higher than simply selling beef or soybeans to feed animals.

So, soy is a treasure much richer than we have been
wondering presently, among others not yet properly
explored we can discuss another time.

Yours, very kindly

Lino
Lino Guedes Pires
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
please, answer here or send your comments to linpires@yahoo.com
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I became a vegetarian when I saw (and heard) a hog being slaughtered way back in 1969. People, if you understood the horrific pain and suffering you were causing by eating bacon, you wouldn't even be having this conversation.

Soy bacon seems to be a health solution.

I do not know the brand, but for price, Costco's Turkey Bacon is Fantastic! I have no info because I didn't save the package. $8 for four lbs. Really good price! And tastes great!

Enjoy!

Must read the "China Study". It will open your eyes

Need to read the "China Study". This crap will kill you

Oh yeah opps and Melody good point on the proceed foods and the horrible chemicals in them!~~ UBER YUCK

Im with Bill to an extent on the real foods over fake crap....and I am also suprised no one even ,mentioned LOW SODIUM bacon!!! yes they do make it however it doesn't quite pack the same saltygoodness but if its sodium you are looking to reduce it is out there in many brands. Here's the other prob why all the "fake" foods if you are not a vegan/vegetarian? all it does is give a false sense usually and people will eat more because its "better" for them! Everything in moderation and you'll be fine....save for the smokes...dude don't go back to that one!!!=o)

More than the pros and cons over the fat content debate, how about all of the processing chemicals that will eventuallly embalm us all?

I am 69 yrs old and I no longer will submit to eating trendy food alternatives. The real thing is always far more delicious than the pale substitute. So I eat 3 pieces of thick, peppered bacon in the morning and eat farm fresh free range eggs. I will admit that for awhile I ate margerine--- only to be told by my health consultant that butter is a hundred times better for you than even the best margerine. I no longer drink washed out de-caffeinated coffee or tea. I take whole milk. I like the taste of real food not fake food. So I take my statins every night. I don't care. I might even begin smoking again. No more half-life.

I love the thick slice of
Butterball turkey bacon.....
instead of the thin slices. I alway's buy turkey lunch meats
burgers hotdogs and bacon,I don't eat anything that is made with RED meat.

What? No mention of Louis Rich? Or maybe that is the oscar mayer brand
(I think). Anyway, it is the best tasting by far, but much preferred cooked in a skillet, the microwave looses flavor. Jennie O is the worst, Yuk!

Butterball turkey bacon gets my family's vote over Oscar Mayer or Jennie-O. We haven't tried the others but will buy them next trip to the store.

There is another brand of turkey bacon that is very good, and more like Canadian Bacon. It is Esskay, from Smithfield. I can no longer get it in OH, but Tops was still carrying in NY. Now that Tops is closing stores, I don't know if anyone is picking it up. The slices are large and tasty, but I don't know nutritional content. Each slice is 1 point in WW.
We also like the Trader Joe's brand. It is similar to Esskay, but the slices are a bit smaller.

Any chance of Canadian products getting reviews or a web site for comparison? These American products unfamiliar to some Canuks.

All these vegie burgers and turkey bacon are great, but I have Stage1 hypertension and the thought of any large doses of salt is just too scary. How about a taste test or recipe using turkey but much lower salt to make a great tasting burger.

crispy?..not my bacon! I always specify ''soft'', or as the girl's at Alice's Restaurant called it--''wavy''..

Brown sesame seeds in a dry frying pan. Sprinkle on BLT or anything. Tastes just like bacon

Interesting. I own both of your books...need to read them.