Swapping sausages or bacon for beans or tofu could cut a person’s risk of dementia by nearly a quarter, a study has found.
Always did think that soss, beans ‘n’chips plus bacon was being a bit greedy. Save* the bacon for the bacon egg and beans the next day, obviously.
*I’ve been living in countries without proper supplies of decent bacon and sausages for decades now. Save is the right word
Hey Joe, did you get hooked on the ice cream AFTER eating 40 hot dogs at one time?
Behind a paywall, but am I right in thinking this study is yet more ‘correlation is not causation’ bollocks?
I can believe this summary. Anyone that has tofu instead of bacon is clearly mental, so swapping bacon for tofu can therefore plausibly cut the risk of dementia.
Bacon is a real blind spot in Mitteleuropa. The speck that is available in Oe, Cz and Das Reich really doesn’t do the job except in a roll or sarnie.
The sossies tend to have too much meat and not enough bread ( ie are too dense ). Beans only work if one is lucky enough to find overpriced Heinz tins.
ps I used to make great Toad in the Holes with wurst. They cook better than British sossies in the oven.
pps Someone told me once that cholesterol was actually essential to prevent dementia as it is used to nourish the brain.
Can you not get criollo there Tim? Or a similar Brasilian sausage? They are superb. Knock the spots off the cake masquerades as a “British sausage”. 100% meat. Once tried you never go back.
Beans only work if one is lucky enough to find overpriced Heinz tins.
The weird thing with baked beans is they’re actually cassolet. When I was a kid in the ’50s Heinz were still putting a piece of pork in every tin. Over the years the recipe & thus the taste has degenerated to the vile things they are today.
I make my own. We have the white beans anyway. Few spoons full of frita, some diced pork, some herbs salt & pepper & a tad of sugar. Pop it in the oven for half an hour. Tastes just like the beans I used to eat as a kid.
Won’t someone think of the planet?
Swapping meat for beans and tofu will double methane emissions.
Back when, Heinz baked beans had a taste all their own. But there was a supermarket chain called Fine Fare used to specialise in cheap own label food substitutes. So there was also Fine Fare baked beans, which were an insipid mess not a patch on the real thing Heinz. And then for some peculiar & unexplained reason, Heinz copied the Fine Fare product & marketed it as Heinz baked beans in the original blue tin but with no warning label.
Incidentally, I gather there conniptions happening over in Paris where the French Olympics organisers have been trying to force vegan food on the athletes. There’s hardly any meat products. They’re now trying pacify them by shipping in meat. A 100kg, 6’6″ Australian athlete was presented with two lamb chops.
And apparently all the hand food available at events for the public is vegan.
Preferring tofu (blocks of snot with some stiffening agent) over sausages and bacon?
Well, I’m not sure if it’s dementia, but it certainly a mental illness.
Branston beans are tip top as are their beans n’ sossages.
BiS is right, Heinz mucked about with the recipe but the ones I used to buy when I lived out there were bloody horrible.
By the way don’t get me wrong about Continental sausages, they just don’t seem to work for breakfast ( Thuringian ones were not bad for that purpose ).
A fried breakfast isn’t the real thing without some black pudding and some fried bread.
I wouldn’t myself allow beans or chips or tomatoes near my brekkie.
I concur with Ottokring, switching from Heinz to Branston beans has been one of my better life choices.
The feature of these observational studies is they on self reporting. In this case people remembering what was in their lifetime diet… er… dementia?
This morning I had tofu sausages for breakfast.
I think so, anyway. It’s a bit hazy.
am I right in thinking this study is yet more ‘correlation is not causation’ bollocks?
Indeed. The words ‘may’, ‘might’ and ‘could’ appear a lot. Then there is a quote from a scientist who says that no causal link was found. More bollocks than in a Richmond frozen sausage abomination.
However, you don’t want 100% meat in a breakfast sausage. Mad professor chef Heston Bloomineck himself found that, when making a perfect sausage, a little rusk is needed to absorb fat and make the sausage lighter. Of course you don’t want rusk in a saucisson type affair, but that’s a different thing altogether.
I rather like Singapore’s Ayam Brand baked beans; they use large beans.
Self reported data is the absolutely least credible evidence you can have
Tell me again about the wholesome Mediterranean diet? You know, the one where they eat huge quantities of salami and other preserved meat and fish?
Tell me again about the wholesome Mediterranean diet?
That always makes me laugh. The locals here have almost complete aversion to vegetables. You might just get a tiny portion boiled to mush. They eat a great deal of fried stuff dripping with oil. And chips heaped with salt. Salads are mostly for tourists.
bloke in spain said:
“Incidentally, I gather there conniptions happening over in Paris where the French Olympics organisers have been trying to force vegan food on the athletes.”
Yes, I was surprised at that from the French. I know the Parisians love anything trendy and “progressive”, but I thought they still loved food more.