Take comfort in the fact that Spanish Iberico Pork is good for us. Pata Negra fat is comprised of more than 50% the healthy kind -- unsaturated fats like olive oils -- and it's believed that eating Pata Negra can actually reduce one's levels of bad cholesterol and increase levels of the good stuff.

Doctors in Spain refer to Pata Negra as "walking olive trees", and consider it a health food!