I Knew It All Along!

Mice Will Show Us the Way!


Every time I discover something in the way of food, especially food containing bacon, readers get all excited and remind me that I'm advocating a diet that will only make more trouble for my pallbearers (what with all the fat, you know). While I blithely dismiss their claims as unimportant since I have to die of something, I have felt a tinge of guilt when extolling the virtues of, say, the bacon explosion. No more. The lab mice have shown us that such stuff is actually (gulp) healthy!
In studies conducted at both the University of Alabama-Birmingham and the Baylor University School of Medicine, a high-in-fat meal was shown to be a good idea...as long as it was breakfast: long noted for eggs, BACON and fried potatoes (with a ladle of gravy to boot!). Again, this is breakfast we're talking about. Here's how it went down, so to speak.
Identical groups of mice were fed either a high-fat breakfast and a low fat evening meal or a low-fat breakfast which was followed by a high-fat evening meal. (no, there was no thought of low-fat, low-fat. That's for runway models and masochists).
The diets of both groups were equal in both total calories and in calories from fat, just in case you're looking for that loophole.
The result? The mice that were fed a low-fat breakfast (think pancakes or waffles) followed by a high-fat dinner (think, well, bacon) had SIGNIFICANTLY higher body weight and higher body fat composition! In addition, they tended to develop insulin resistance which could lead to Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. These poor mice also showed higher levels of liptin and triglycerides: in short, dead mice walking!
So, what does that mean for us? Bacon every morning and pancakes at night! I can just see the headlines in The Enquirer now:

EAT BACON AND LOSE WEIGHT...OPRAH'S WEIGHT LOSS SECRET!