VERY CONFUSED.... is this true????

Question

I was came came across this web site that says coconut oil is good for you. I thought saturated fat was bad. Is this info. correct? Tiek

Here's the web site.. it looks like a good souce of info: http://www.about-coconut-oil.com

Answer 1

yeah

Answer 2

The saturated fats that are bad for you are saturated animal fats but saturated vegetable fats as in coconut oil and palm oil are OK.

Robinson Crusoe lived on a diet that included a high coconut content for many years and he was very healthy.

Answer 3

If you'd really like to learn about it, read the book, The Coconut Oil Miracle. It's fascinating. It was written about 10 years ago and contains a lot of information. Link below.

We just started using coconut oil and replaced all our vegetable oil with it. It is a saturated fat but is used by your body very differently than animal fats. It is mostly burned up as energy by your body and not stored as body fat, unlike canola or soy bean oil. It's a medium-chain fatty acid that has antimicrobial and antiviral properties. Not only is it not bad for you, it is VERY good for you. Stock up and eat up! Coconut milk is 17% oil so you can get it from the milk too.

It does any number of things from healing hemorrhoids, eczema when used topically, to building up the immune system by destroying fungus, viruses (yes, viruses) and bacteria inside the body. Coconut oil is extremely stable and acts as an anti-oxidant against free radicals (from smoking, pollution, etc) in your body (like berries do).

It is used in hospitals for malnourished patients because it is so easy to digest. A form of coconut oil (minus the very healthy lauric acid) is contained in many baby formulas.

MUCH can be said for the tropic islands where inhabitants have coconut in some form as a huge portion of their diet for centuries. It has been found that they have extremely low rates of heart disease, great teeth and skin, and are lean and healthy. They eat a TON of coconut.

It got a bad rap largely from the campaign in the 80s by the American Soybean Association. Any guess as to why they'd want to smear coconut oil?

That said, you should buy virgin or extra virgin, cold-pressed coconut oil.

Answer 4

don't trust the dot coms without some research

Answer 5

Of course

Answer 6

Thats a dot com website. They are hardly reputable. I just looked up Ray Peat PhD. He is apparently is a Oregon University Grad student with a PhD in physiology. However his personal experience is hardly scientific data. If you notice, all of those were claims according to how people felt. If you notice they never discuss real facts, with the exception of the fact that the oil does not form a trans fat when cooked with.

Saturated fats are bad, because having a high diet of saturated fats leads to cholesterol build up in blood vessels. If you want to make the switch from vegetable oil to coconut oil be my guest. But I wouldn't suggest you increase your consumption of saturated fats.

Answer 7

Organic coconut oil has been used as cooking oil for thousands of years. Popular cookbooks advertised it at the end of the 19th century. Then came the anti-saturated fat campaign and the promotion of polyunsaturated fats, such as flaxseed, canola, soybean, safflower, corn, and other seed and nut oils plus their partially hydrogenated counterparts (margarine, "I can't believe it's not butter", etc.) as the way to go. Indeed, saturated fats have been supposedly causally linked to high cholesterol and heart disease, multiple sclerosis and other bad health conditions. I don't know how anyone came to this conclusion, since it would be hard to find a person in America who has a high saturated fat diet. Why? Because nearly all commercial foods, including bread, crackers, chips, dips, many candies, zero cholesterol coffee creamers, all mayonnaise and all salad dressings, many pastries and ice creams, most dietetic (for weight loss or diabetes) "foods", many cereals, and nearly all crunchy snacks contain either polyunsaturated or partially hydrogenated fats (which contain some margarine and some of the unsaturated fat mixed together). These foods are often advertised as healthy "all vegetarian," "no-cholesterol" foods. Even the so-called saturated fat in commercial meat is partly unsaturated because most cows are fed corn and soybeans, both of which contain unsaturated oils.

Unsaturated oils in cooked foods become rancid in just a few hours, even in the refrigerator, one reason for the "stale" taste of leftovers. However, according to Peat, eating fresh unsaturated fats is even worse, because once inside the body, they will oxidize (turn rancid) very rapidly due to being heated and mixed with oxygen. Not so with coconut oil. Even after one year at room temperature, coconut oil shows no evidence of rancidity even though it contains 9% linoleic (omega - 6) polyunsaturated acid. Peat theorizes that coconut oil may have antioxidant properties, since the oil doesn't turn rancid and since it reduces our need for vitamin E, whereas unsaturated oils deplete vitamin E.

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