It's been said that bacon makes everything better, but 105-year-old Pearl Cantrell  of Richland Springs, Texas, goes one step further. She says bacon is the key to a long, happy life.

Yep, she's serious. She recently told KRBC when asked about the secret to her longevity, "I love bacon, I eat it every day. I don't feel as old as I am, that's all I can say. I want other people to eat bacon, I tell them too. My kids all eat it." 

Well, if it's gotten her to 105, that's good enough for us, right my fellow cured meat lovers?

When we're talking amazing women's bodies, we almost always talk about Jennifer Aniston. At 44, the woman is so flawless that even super models are in awe of her.

Heck, Jen and Michelle Obama are credited with inspiring a 4,000 percent increase in upper arm plastic surgery. So there's no question her bod is smokin'. The burning question, however, is: How does she get it?

She recently told People that in addition to yoga and a generally healthy lifestyle and diet, she does have one delicious secret that we can all borrow -- cheat days.

Everyone told me weight would just magically fall off as I got closer to my wedding day, because when you're stressed, "that's just what happens." Um, not so much. It's more like the reverse for me, thanks to hormones, so I've just been hoping my hard workouts provide stress relief (sounds pretty counterintuitive, huh?). But for many women, stress and difficult emotions often lead to involuntary weight loss. Even if they're going through the roughest times of their lives, they might look thinner than ever, and then we commend them. Ridic!

Eva Longoria spoke with Dr. Oz about the months following her divorce from Tony Parker, and she said it was "the time I got the most compliments, because I was so skinny. I was not eating. I was depressed. I was sad. My diet was coffee." Grrrreat.

There is nothing more rewarding than seeing your hard work pay off. Since his stint on Dancing With the Stars, Chaz Bono had continued his weight loss journey and recently showed off his 60-pound weight loss at the GLAAD Media Awards Saturday. The 44-year-old told People that he's still dancing, but attributes his slimmer figure to what he's eating.

"Diets don't work," Bono said. "Meats and vegetables and fruits are my diet. I make them all different ways to keep it interesting."

Now THIS is my kinda guy. Sure, people lose pounds on diets all of the time. But if you want to live your life -- you're gonna have to make your "diet" your lifestyle. Not a temporary fix.

Is it just me, or is the world totally in love with everything Jennifer Lawrence does lately? She stars in Hunger Games, it blows up. She trips up the stairs at the Oscars -- BAM, it's everywhere. Well I'm crushin' on J. Lawr for an entirely different reason today: her eating habits.

The actress recently confessed that she's absolutely in love with eating anything fried and with carbs. "Probably my favorite food is a potato," she gushed. "Just a potato, because I like fries, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes."

But really, when was the last time that you heard an A-lister fess up to that, eh? Sure, big stars talk about their cheat foods all the time, but to have Jennifer straight up say she eats carbs and fried things and loves it? Man, Jennifer is a woman after my own heart.

Now the big question: how does she eat all these high-cal goodies and stay looking so fabulous? I think I know the answer.

Confession: While I've been known to poke fun at Gwyneth Paltrow now and again (come on, it's like shooting fish(mongers) in a barrel!), I find myself hesitating to criticize her latest cookbook craze/crazy cookbook. It's All Good is all about how getting rid of gluten, sugar, meat, eggs and dairy has revolutionized her health -- not to mention the health of her unwittingly-along-for-the-ride family. Most of the flack Paltrow is fielding has to do with her admission that occasionally, yes, her kids get really hungry. And while, as a mom, I'm not so sure what I think about whether elimination diets are appropriate for kids, I have to admit ... I lived the gluten/dairy/egg/meat-free way for a while myself, and I felt ... mostly ... all good.

I wasn't trying to be cool or anything -- my doctor at the time suggested the diet as a remedy for what he suspected was celiac disease, a digestive disorder triggered by gluten intolerance.

Food allergies are a scary thing. Growing up, I don't remember having any friends with food allergies. Kids came to my house for a party and ate whatever was served. Not one parent would be fussing around, demanding to know if there was cashew butter in the cake frosting. But the times have changed, and now it seems like pretty much every kid I know has a food allergy. I've had an up close view of serious food allergies for a very long time, thanks to my friend Amy (not her real name). Amy has a whole host of food allergies, so many that sometimes I've wondered if she were exaggerating or paranoid. But after reading what happend to this teen who died from eating half of a  cookie, I'll never doubt my friend again.

Like the majority of women in America, my weight has fluctuated since I was in high school. Since I’ve given birth twice in that time, it’s fluctuated wildly. Growing a human is hard work, man! In my case, it required bean and cheese burritos and fries. Hmmm … I don’t really wonder why I gained such a huge amount when pregnant with my eldest daughter.

My weight over the last decade and a half has ranged from 115 pounds as a vegetarian 16-year-old swimmer to number that started with two the day I gave birth to my first daughter, and everything in between. I’ve dealt with the stigma of being heavy and the contempt of others when I was thin and fit. It seems like you just can’t win as a woman sometimes.