Is an All-Ham Diet Healthy? Pros and Cons of a Pork-Heavy Diet

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the potential advantages and disadvantages of an all-ham diet, with participants sharing their thoughts on health implications, personal experiences, and humorous anecdotes related to the topic. The scope includes dietary considerations, health impacts, and light-hearted exchanges among participants.

Discussion Character

  • Debate/contested
  • Conceptual clarification
  • Exploratory

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest that an all-ham diet could be enjoyable, citing taste as an advantage.
  • Others warn about the high salt and preservative content in ham, raising health concerns.
  • A participant humorously notes the potential negative impact on the pig, prompting a light-hearted exchange.
  • There are claims that an all-ham diet could become boring quickly and may not be healthy in the long term.
  • One participant mentions that consuming ham without side dishes, while washing it down with Coke, raises further health questions.
  • Questions arise about the quantity of ham purchased for $59, with discussions about whether it is a whole ham or deli ham, and its implications for diet duration.
  • Some participants express skepticism about the specifics of the ham and its preparation, leading to humorous clarifications about the nature of ham.
  • There is a playful debate about the anatomy of ham and its relation to the pig, with various interpretations of what constitutes a whole ham.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the health implications of an all-ham diet, with multiple competing views on its advantages and disadvantages. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the overall healthiness of such a diet.

Contextual Notes

Limitations include varying assumptions about health conditions of participants, the specific type of ham being discussed, and the lack of detailed nutritional analysis of an all-ham diet.

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of an all ham diet. I've got $59 worth of ham here and damned if I'm going to let it go to waste.
 
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Advantage: yum
Disadvantage: none
 
Beware, lots and lots of salt and preservatives. Make a ham platter and give it as a gift for New Years, to me.
 
I think it may be a disadvantage for the pig though.
 
she doesn't think so and don't call my girlfriend a pig. oh you mean the ham, nevermind
 
OMG Trib. LOL
 
It's not easy having a pig, I mean, a gravity challenged individual, for a a girlfriend and I have to be on gaurd all the time.
I'm just kidding, my new girlfriend is tiny. Want to hear a funny story? My ex is a psycho. Totally nuts maybe even homicidal. Last night my girlfriend and I are sound asleep, completely naked. All of a sudden there is a loud commotion at the front door. I don't know what it is about being woken from a dead sleep, but we both figured it had to be my ex. We jumped out of bed she tried putting on my pants, I got my shirt on backwards. I'm supposed to be the macho protector, but I was peeking through curtains trying to be as invisible as possible. Turned out to be a stupid dog ripping open a garbage bag.
 
So you're saying it WAS your ex?
 
While I admit there is a resemblance between my ex and a mangy trash eating *****, I must say, in all fairness, my ex has fewer legs. so no it was not my ex at least not the ex I'm talking about.
 
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advantages:
none

disadvantages:
Gets really boring really quick
very bad for you.
 
  • #11
very bad for me or VERY bad for me?
I'm not mixing in any side dishes or anything, but I am washing it down with lots of Coke. Which has 0 grams of fat, btw.
 
  • #12
how much is $59 dollars of ham?

when we have ham on new years, i like to cube the ham and make a cheese fondu. that's always good.
 
  • #13
Gale said:
how much is $59 dollars of ham?
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fifty nine dollars
 
  • #14
So, what does that last you? Two or three days? I wouldn't recommend a steady diet of ham all year, but for a week, other than the salt probably making you very thirsty, as long as you're starting out in reasonably good health (no high cholesterol or high blood pressure), it's certainly no worse than that Mexican food you usually live on.
 
  • #15
tribdog said:
fifty nine dollars

helpful :rolleyes:

is it a whole ham? or is it like deli ham? honey glazed, smoked, cured, spiced..? that'd make a big difference in cost. if its whole, was it one of those spiral cut ones, or just a regular ham? if its a regular ham, that'd be huge... or grossly overpriced.

like moonbear said though, if you were on an all ham diet it wouldn't last too long anyway eh. I feel bad for your girl though. even just two days of ham only will probably make you smell like it.
 
  • #16
I doubt he got 59$ worth of deli-ham. It's probably a whole ham.

(i also doubt a few other things about this thread)
 
  • #17
I think it's only a half ham
there are no snouts and it's thick on one end and thin on the other
 
  • #18
hams generally don't have snouts... ham is usually the rump of a pig, if there's a snout there... hmm...
 
  • #19
It's his honey-baked ham. Sheesh, don't you folks follow the threads around here? :biggrin:
 
  • #20
oh, his honey-baked ham... yeah, now the snout thing makes perfect sense...
 
  • #21
wouldn't you think a whole ham is an entire pig? I would have.
 
  • #22
actually if a whole ham is the rump of a pig I just hope it doesn't have a ham hole.
 
  • #23
I thought the ham of a pig would just be like his hamstring or something.
 
  • #24
tribdog said:
wouldn't you think a whole ham is an entire pig? I would have.
Nope, that would be a roast pig. Ham is just the thigh (the bone running through the center is part of the femur).
 

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