Health Benefits of Coconut Oil Part 3
This is in continuation of our discussion on the various health impact of coconut especially it's oil on health. In this section, we are looking at various studies confirming that coconut is healthy and its oil with the saturated fat does not hurt as much as was previously believed.
The truth about coconut and its oil is obvious to anyone who has studied the health of those who lived in traditional tropical cultures where coconut has been a nutritious diet staple for thousands of years.
Back in the 1930s, a dentist named Dr Weston Price travelled throughout the south Pacific examining traditional diets and the effect on dental and overall health. He found out that those eating diets High coconut products were healthy and trim despite the high fat concentration in their diets and that heart disease was virtually non existent.
Based on over 60yrs negative public policy and belief concerning naturally occurring saturated fats, you would expect these cultures to be rude with clogged arteries, obesity and heart disease.
Another incident confirming the positive impact of coconut oil on health was in the 1940s, farmers found out this effect by accident we may say, when they tried using inexpensive coconut oil to fatten their livestock, it did not work, instead coconut oil made the animals lean, active and hungry. Many animal and human research studies have demonstrated that replacing LCFAs with MCFAs results in both decreased body weight and reduced fat deposition.
Other studies on Pacific Islands population who get 30%- 60% of their total calorie intake from fully saturated coconut oil have all shown nearly non existent rates of cardiovascular diseases. Best example of such a population are the Tokelauans who live in South Pacific. They eatover 60% of their calories from coconut and are the biggest consumers of saturated fats in the world, these people are in excellent health with no evidence of heart disease.
It may be surprising for you to learn that the naturally occurring saturated fats in coconut oil has a high smoke point and does not form harmful products like other oils even when heated to normal cooking temperature.
Virgin Coconut oil for example will not go rancid even at room temperature in the tropics for a couple of years.
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Friday 11 May 2018
Health Benefits of Coconut Oil Part 3
By Grace Enemali at May 11, 2018
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