105 Year-Old Woman Says Eating Bacon Every Day Is The Key To Long Life
It’s hard to argue with a woman who’s lived more than a century:
A 105-year-old woman from Richland, Texas says that the key to long life is bacon.
Pearl Cantrell’s love of bacon is so strong that the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile made a stop through town last week to wish her a happy birthday, all because she told a local news station her amazing secret.
“I love bacon, I eat it everyday,” she told a reporter for Abilene-based Big Country Homepage in April. “I don’t feel as old as I am, that’s all I can say.”
The science is settled!
Good enough for me.
I love that the related post is about Ken Bacon dying.
Show me the birth certificate. Is she really 105?
Some people just have the most amazing goddamned genes. This reminds me of my paternal great grandfather, who lived to the age of 98, and smoked cigarettes for over 75 years. Never got lung cancer, never had problems breathing or developed a hacking cough or anything. He made himself a manhattan with dinner every night until his last week alive. He was still spry and in relatively good health, and still drove himself places into his mid 90s.
Not really, it only takes one word. Outlier. Bacon is only a few notches up from toxic waste.
Eating bacon every day is the key to long life. Except, you know, for the pig.
@anjin-san:
Stone the blasphemer!!
Well, c’mon, yeah, it’s an outlier. But it gives many of us peace, at least for one day.
One….blessed….day…..
I would like to buy a subscription to this woman’s newsletter.
Uh, I am pretty sure Burgess Meredith told Jack Lemmon this in Grumpier Old Men, like 17 years ago.
Or was it Grumpy Old Men…
Related:
7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here
Food producers rule. Consumers, eat what is on your plate.
Any mention of bacon needs to link to this page and John Scalzi’s taping bacon to his cat.
Y’know, usually I’m a pretty logical guy and require requisite proof for such claims, but… this one just feels right. Right as rain.