September 21, 2014: The Fresh Market "Weekend" Bacon and Medicinal Bacon!

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a trip to The Fresh Market for some "Weekend" bacon, and a review of the news. BACON IN THE NEWS - incredibly, they've found another very cool use for bacon. In an act of desperation, doctors shoved bacon up a kid's nose to stop the bleeding, and it worked. The team of doctors won the famous Ig Nobel award from Harvard University for this possibly life-saving act: "Michigan doctors who used cured pork to stop a nosebleed won a 2014 Ig Nobel prize, awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine at Harvard University for especially imaginative scientific achievements. Dr. Sonal Saraiya and her team at the Detroit Medical Center decided to try the folk remedy as a “last resort” after failed attempts to stop an uncontrollable nosebleed in a 4-year-old who suffers from Glanzmann thrombasthenia, a rare condition in which blood does not properly clot. They stuffed strips of cured pork into the...