Life Without Bacon – Why Bother?

He didn’t originate it, but Cloyde (my late husband) used to say, “Life without bacon… why bother?” This was always in response to whatever my latest healthy eating plan was, all of which declared bacon to be a “no-no.”

In a world full of health gurus telling us everything we cannot or should not eat, it is hard to find a healthy diet we can follow with foods available to us on this continent. Even if you want to follow a vegetarian lifestyle, the truth is that chocolate is a bean, as is vanilla. Sugar cane is a grass. Maple syrup comes from a tree. Perhaps these fall within the same category as water consumption that tells us we should drink plenty of water, but not saltwater. By the way, our drinking water has been treated with chlorine and fluoride, both toxic. Picky, picky, picky.

Alcohol will kill you, but red wine is loaded with resveratrol and other good stuff. Coffee is bad for you, except when it isn’t. Tea is better for you, except for certain unnamed kinds which contain toxins. Sugar is bad for you, but synthetic sweeteners are even worse. Carbonated beverages interfere with nutrient absorption in your intestines and therefore should never be ingested, especially with a meal. A better use for Coke than human consumption is to clean your car engine with it. Crisco was invented as a machine lubricant, also not for human consumption. Margerine… you might as well be eating plastic. Butter is good for you except that it’s fattening, same thing for coconut oil and avocados. Peanut butter is a great source of protein except for the fat content and the probable amount of naturally occurring aspergillus mold spores by virtue of its underground growth. Tomatoes and eggplants can be great meat substitutes except that as members of the nightshade family, the skins and seeds are full of lectins, a specialized form of gluten. Glutens and lectins will destroy the villi inside your intestines rendering them unable to absorb the multiple vitamins and minerals you are supplementing with. By the way, oatmeal is not gluten-free, it is loaded with gluten that goes by another name, gliadin, still an equally bad gluten. Salt is bad for you, but you should eat sea salt (by the way, it’s ALL sea salt), kosher salt, or Celtic salt because of the attached minerals.

“Give us this day our daily bread,” except bread is full of glutens and is, therefore, one of the primary suspects in causing irritable bowel syndrome and basically shortening our lives from the 120-year planned life span to maybe half of that.

Milk is a white colloid designed for baby bovine, not humans. Whole, unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk might be the exception, but good luck finding that. Stores are not allowed to sell it. Most of us are lactose intolerant, anyway. Coconut milk just isn’t, and neither is rice milk.

With so many of our vegetables derived from unnatural hybridization and GMO treatments, not to mention being grown amid deadly insecticides, they should not be considered edible. Then, there’s the meat source, also fed with those GMO grains and treated heavily with steroids and other hormones and toxic injections.

Are we supposed to live entirely on turmeric and black pepper?

While we are talking about safeguarding our health, let’s talk about vaccines. I am not an anti-vaxxer, but our government-mandated healthcare system has gone waaaaaay overboard. Even though the polio vaccines Baby Boomers were given in the 1950s and 1960s have been linked to our current cancer epidemic, so have many other factors. At issue is the unsterile way the early serums were inadvertently infected with monkey viruses. Still, we pretty much got rid of the scourge of poliomyelitis, so I’ll give that one a cautious thumbs up. The Smallpox vaccine was definitely a good deal, also.

My brother and sister both had chickenpox, mumps, and measles and failed to die or be disfigured in any way, although my brother’s bad eyesight MIGHT have resulted from his measles. I also had chickenpox without lasting damages and although exposed to mumps and measles, apparently had a natural immunity. Personally, I would not vaccinate against those illnesses, but I probably would against Rubella (German Measles) simply because of the damage it can do if a pregnant woman has it. In an early pregnancy the baby can be horribly affected including blindness, deafness, and severe to profound mental retardation, even though the child or adult who has it doesn’t usually become very sick. When I was of childbearing age I inquired about the vaccine, but when tested, it was revealed that at some point I had had rubella without ever knowing it.

I really take umbrage with giving infants and children the Gardasil vaccine against sexually transmitted cervical cancer. Unless you have a six-year-old who is rampantly sexually active this is just plain dangerous and WRONG on so many levels. And don’t even get me started on ANY mRNA vaccines – especially the Covid “vaccine” which is NOT a vaccine, does not prevent or demure an attack of Covid and very likely makes one more receptive to the Covid virus and so many other terrible side effects (some deadly).

You can revile and disagree with me all you want, but any time you are injecting a human being with a foreign substance, it had better, for certain, be proven to prevent a life-altering or deadly disease. All other “normal” illnesses, within our natural locale, are best fought off by the body’s natural immune response. We were programmed with natural immunity or the ability to fight off what we used to call “childhood diseases” at conception and/or through the mother’s breast milk. This natural health benefit can be maintained and enhanced through a healthy lifestyle. If you are afraid to go against the vaccination protocols being pushed on us, at least spread them out over a much longer period. Evidence strongly suggests that this unprecedented epidemic of autism is linked to a tiny body being overwhelmed by too many vaccines in too short a time span.

I can’t tell you how to achieve all of this. I’m guessing that if you CAN plant a natural garden and grow some of your own food, that would be a good start. Maybe you can keep bees and chickens like our grandparents did. I’m not doing these things, but I keep thinking I should. We tried the garden thing a few years ago, but the groundhogs ate everything as soon as it was ripe enough to pick. Maybe we should be eating the groundhogs.

Parents, you cannot wrap your children in bubble wrap to keep them from injury. You cannot inoculate them against every virus or bacterium in the universe. Even the most careful and caring parent cannot save a child from his or her own stupid choices or from bizarre, fluke accidents. But you CAN teach them to be aware of their surroundings. You should teach them moral values, such as teaching them that sexual activity has no place in a teenager’s life, that it should be reserved for the time when he or she is ready to accept the responsibility of parenthood. No, this is not fool-proof, but set high standards, anyway. Teach them good hygiene and healthy dietary practices. Shut down the electronics and put their little tuchuses onto bicycles, jump-ropes, sports teams, and musical ensembles. Surround them with printed BOOKS and read with them. Teach them to be critical thinkers (not critical of each other), to be kind and thoughtful of others. Encourage them to have a vivid imagination but also to accept reality and practice good manners! Reward their hard work and accomplishments and correct their misbehavior. Set a good personal example.

Oh, and even if you do not attend church or synagogue, at least make sure they know and understand that there is a higher power, that the polarity of good and evil is very real, and that it is their responsibility to strive for good and avoid evil. Encourage them to ask questions and seek truth so they can discern between them. These are the things that build a healthy society, not GMO fake foods, dangerous over-vaccination, and participation awards.

And, unless you keep a kosher home, a little bacon every now and then is not such a terrible treat. If you’re kosher, I don’t know, there are versions with turkey, beef, or lamb that can be just as yummy.