© UPI/Bill Greenblatt Chef John Johnson checks the status of the hoglog, the world's Largest hunk of bacon with a world record weight of 500 pounds cooked in a custom-built smoker at Baconfest in St. Louis on March 23, 2013.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have found that foods rich in niacin -- including bacon -- can help you live longer, therefore making it advantageous to eat foods that are rich in the vitamin.
Professor Michael Ristow and his team fed a group of roundworms a niacin-rich diet and found they lived one-tenth longer than their niacin-free peers -- a surprise, as scientists have long thought niacin promotes the formation of free radicals.
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Men who eat bacon, may have less normal sperm
New research suggests eating bacon tends to lower sperm count. The data was presented at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston where researchers advised men to stay away from bacon and other forms of red meat if they are trying to conceive. "We found the effect of processed meat intake lowered quality and fish raised quality," said Dr. Myriam Afeiche from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
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Kansas State gives out free bacon at women's basketball game
In order to promote the women's basketball team's home opener against Tennessee State on Friday evening, Kansas State University handed out free bacon beginning an hour before tipoff.
The school made an announcement the Tuesday before the game, and K-State officials were only planning to cook up about 75 pounds of pork. After there was a full-scale bacon blitz on social media, they upped the amount on frying up 300 pounds of thick-sliced bacon, served in "bacon boats," the containers usually used for nachos.
