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If you love me, don’t feed me bacon

  • Written by: Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
imageSwap the bacon for something a little healthier. Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock

A friend reckons he has it good. His partner cooks a bacon-hash-brown-fry-up for breakfast every day. “Are you sure?” I said. “Cause that’s exactly what I would feed my partner if I wanted to bump him off!”

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