Even WHO Seems Scared to Tell You to Stop Ingesting This Drug
This so-called drug has Americans consuming 32 billion strips annually. It was first introduced to the world by China in 1500 B.C. and...it's bacon. This high-fat delight has taken some heat in the past couple of years with scientic reports stating that it is a level 1 carcinogen. Oh, and it's just as addictive as cocaine. But even with this alarming scientific evidence, the bacon industry only saw a 16.5 percent decline after the WHO report. What makes bacon so addictive? Umami is a word used to describe the 5th flavor of taste. (The other four being bitter, salty, sweet, and sour.) Umami is described as delicious, salty-sweet, pleasantly savory, meaty, long-lasting, mouth-watering, full and mouth-coating, balances taste, and rounds out flavor. I think we can all agree that umami describes bacon. The particular taste of umami causes a chemical reaction in the brain that leads to consistently craving the taste. We constantly want more and there's no shortage of wa...