[LukeL]

Farmers would eat half a slab of bacon and 3-6 fried eggs and wash it down with half a pot of coffee or whole milk before going to work in the fields. Many of them were still on the same routine well into their 70s and early 80s.

[FreedomPoster]

You remind me that I need to roast a tray of bacon. I do a half-sheet pan with a parchment sheet in the bottom to catch the grease, then a baking rack with ~10 slices on it. ~25 minutes at 425F for the thick-sliced stuff I buy. 1-3 times a week, with me and my wife.

[oldvirginian]

A member of our family lived to 109. Every morning he had 2 fried eggs, 6 slices of bacon, 3 biscuits and 3 cups of Luzianne Chickory and Coffee.
He also walked 4 miles a day until he was 102. He was still walking 1/4 mile every day until a week before he died.
The day he died he had his usual breakfast.

[RedMonqey]

"Farmers would eat half a slab of bacon and 3-6 fried eggs and wash it down with half a pot of coffee or whole milk before going to work in the fields."

True that. But you need to add they worked from sunrise to sunset. One can eat like a field hand when you work like one. But if you eat like a field hand but go to work in a cubicle, well you will soon fit the cubicle...