The Hall of Famer answered before he could even take a bite of his bacon cheeseburger.

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The competition is doing much better repeat business by parading out elaborate gut busters like Wendy's Bacon Mushroom Melt and Jack-in-the-Box's Bacon Bacon Cheeseburger.

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Scientists also are far from unraveling the connections between the largely autonomous parts of the brain that regulate day-to-day energy consumption and expenditure, and the conscious brain that directs behavior such as walking across the street to get a bacon cheeseburger.

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