Eating bacon makes babies smarter!

[Eldritch]

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Throw out those Baby Einstein toys, parents, because it's bacon that makes your baby smarter!

According to a piece that went up on Republic of Bacon, there's a chemical compound in bacon that enhances developing neural systems -- choline, usually classified as one of the B vitamins.

This startling announcement is the result of research conducted at the University of North Carolina -- in a region where a suspiciously large number of hogs are raised -- by Steven Zeisel, et al. His takeaway quote (only for the technically minded): "Our study in mice indicates that the diet of a pregnant mother, especially choline in that diet, can change the epigenetic switches that control brain development in the fetus." In other words, feed the mom bacon, not the baby. Although there's nothing cuter than feeding a baby a piece of bacon, is there?

Classify this factoid with all the other ridiculous assertions that send parents and the newly pregnant running to the grocery store. Remember how, just a few years back, the Atkins diet had everyone eating an entire pound of bacon for breakfast?

Listen, scientists -- no one needs any inducement to eat more bacon!

Link.

[TriRÿche]

Hmmm...

Jews and Muslims are prohibited from eating bacon. Don't THEY want to be smarter?

Maybe bacon was the "Forbidden fruit" of the old testament. Actually, the apple that "Eve" ate with "Adam" was a pomegranate... Pomegranates contain several chemical compounds which are known aphrodisiacs.

So, the lesson for the day is to eat more bacon.... and pomegranates.

Below: Warm spinach salad with bacon & pomegranates

[Osweo]

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I beg; NO! It would be torture every time I'm on. And seeing as how I'm on in the small hours, might lead to unhealthy night-time snacking!

there's a chemical compound in bacon that enhances developing neural systems -- choline, usually classified as one of the B vitamins.
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"Our study in mice indicates that the diet of a pregnant mother, especially choline in that diet, can change the epigenetic switches that control brain development in the fetus." In other words, feed the mom bacon, not the baby.

I'm convinced, and have further reasoning to support the efficacy of such nourishment, especially if the next logical step from bacon is taken...;

"Killin' sheep was kinder more fun - but d'ye know, 'twan't quite satisfyin'. Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye - As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun to make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy - here, set still, what's ailin' ye? - I didn't do nothin', only I wondered haow 'twud be ef I did - They say meat makes blood an' flesh, an' gives ye new life, so I wondered ef 'twudn't make a man live longer an' longer ef 'twas more the same - "


http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary...inthehouse.htm
http://www.violetbooks.com/REVIEWS/rockhill-HPL.html

Pomegranates contain several chemical compounds which are known aphrodisiacs.

So, the lesson for the day is to eat more bacon.... and pomegranates.

Having recently consumed large quantities of jamon in the delightful company of a certain Granadiña, I can well vouch for that.

Below: Warm spinach salad with bacon & pomegranates

[Grumpy Cat]

Pork is high in thiamine, necessary for brain development.

[Atlas]

Pork is high in thiamine, necessary for brain development.

Tell that to the Mudslims, if that can make them any cleverer...

[Grumpy Cat]

Tell that to the Mudslims, if that can make them any cleverer...

Well, the Middle Eastern diet is rich in plants rich in thiamine.

Maybe that's why Islam never flew in Northern Europe, because such plants don't grow there.

[Eldritch]

Maybe that's why Islam never flew in Northern Europe, because such plants don't grow there.

Vodka: Its History and Significance

The story is told that in A.D. 988 the Grand Prince of Kiev in what is now Ukraine decided that it was time for his people to convert from their pagan ways to one of the monotheistic religions that held sway in the civilized countries to the south.

First came the Jewish rabbis. He listened to their arguments, was impressed, but ultimately sent them away after remarking that the followers of Judaism did not control any land.

Next came the Moslem mullahs. Again he was impressed, both with their intellectual arguments and the success of Islam as a political and military force, but when he was told that Islam proscribed alcohol he was dismayed and sent them away. Finally came the Christian priests who informed him that not only could good Christians drink alcohol, but that wine was actually required for church rituals such as communion. That was good enough for the Grand Prince, and on his command his subjects converted en masse to Christianity.

So there you have it: bacon makes us smart, smart people drink more, yet Islam forbids both.

[Osweo]

Well, the Middle Eastern diet is rich in plants rich in thiamine.

Maybe that's why Islam never flew in Northern Europe, because such plants don't grow there.

Only really the Russians had a realistic chance to choose, and indeed, the taboos involved seem to have played a role...

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus'

The Primary Chronicle reports that in the year 987, as the result of a consultation with his boyars, Vladimir sent envoys to study the religions of the various neighboring nations whose representatives had been urging him to embrace their respective faiths. The result is amusingly described in the following apocryphal anecdote. Of the Muslim Bulgarians of the Volga the envoys reported there is no gladness among them; only sorrow and a great stench, and that their religion was undesirable due to its taboo against alcoholic beverages and pork; supposedly, Vladimir said on that occasion:
"Drinking is the joy of the Rus'."
«Руси веселье питье, не можемъ безъ того быти».
"Руси есть веселие пить: не можем без того быть".
Rusi veselye pitye: Ne mozhem bez tovo byti.

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