Do you keep a jar of bacon fat on your counter?

@cherokeepatti You actually had to cook bacon...almost every day, too, and use it up before it went rancid. I can't even imagine what the insides of their arteries looked like. But my grandfather, who adored bacon, lived to 93.

@4meAndyou there’s been a change in how all of that is viewed. There is no proven correlation between ingestion of saturated fat and congestive heart disease. The worst fats are the ones that blow apart when heated.

@SW-User Well, I do think genetics play a role also. My grandfather chain smoked and had two kinds of cancer that were cured, and had a long life and still ate bacon and eggs every morning, wilted lettuce salad, and pie, pie, pie all the time. Lard crust.

@SW-User Yeah i don't think any fats are particularly good for you when they're heated but they taste nice though.

@SW-User animal fats are more stable as is avocado oil

@SW-User I probably should change, but i rarely use oil for anything, maybe just a teaspoon in some stir fried vegetables. Avocado oil is nice though. Animal fats though contain more carcinogens so i just avoid those.

@Quoththeraven I’m low carb so I don’t make popcorn; it sounds like a good idea though.

@SW-User 80% of serum cholesterol is produced by the body and needed by every cell. Diabetes is related to carbohydrates not fats.

@SW-User heartattack and strokes are

@SW-User that was once the belief but it’s not backed up by research

@latinbutterfly bacon fat has no carbs

@SW-User Didn't know that.

@Success we are in different worlds

@SW-User I'm slim. hbu?

@Success same waist size as high school and I’m 50. All fats have the same number of calories but your kind breaks down into unfortunate things when heated.