I love bacon, but I think that a “balanced” or well rounded diet along with a good amount of physical activity is very important.
Which brings up a question... what is the best thing to do with left over bacon grease. I pour it into cans that I have cut the tops off of. You can stick a small piece of rolled up paper towel in them and they make a good smelling, slightly hard to light candle. I keep them in the fridge. But is there something better to do with left over bacon grease? Because if you fry up a few pounds you end up with more bacon candles than you need.
We save ours in a jar in the fridge and use it for frying food whenever we want to add a little flavor. It's great for stir fry.
We use bacon grease for making fried cabbage. It’s really steamed cabbage with some fat for flavor. A smallish head of cabbage, coarsely chopped, as much bacon grease as you can dig out of the jar on a tablespoon, plenty of black pepper, and a few tbsp of sugar. Take a big skillet with a tight-fitting lid, melt the bacon grease, add the cabbage, pepper, and sugar along with a cup of water. Cover and cook, stirring a few times, until the cabbage is wilted to how you like it.
The book does encourage exercise, just not the jogging kind.
As far as bacon grease, I use it to fry my eggs in. Use enough so that the eggs float on the grease and they won’t stick, and taste like bacon!