and chest pains, and high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, and hardening of the arteries and high sodium...totally worth it! (not typed in purple!)
Sure if you fail to eat a reasonable diet, but that's true of everything that isn't a celery stick. Bacon is high in sodium, no question, but if you keep most other foods on the lower end of the sodium table you body is quite capable of processing a few heavily-laden food items.