The thing is, fat isn't all that bad for you. The idea that fat is unhealthy is mostly dead outside of sugar lobbyists. It's sugar that you really have to look out for.

Salt is also likely not as bad as reporting used to make it out to be. It causes short term blood pressure increases, but potentially not long term and also we don't know the direction of causation with that and heart disease.

Basically, don't over-indulge, but bacon probably isn't going to kill you.