COCONUT OIL AND THE MYTHS SURROUNDING CHOLESTEROL AND HEART DISEASE
The
AHA (American Heart Association) has released a report that coconut
oil is a saturated fat and considers it unhealthy. They do not say,
however, that you should stop eating saturated fat. They are
recommending limiting fat to 30g for a man (about 2 tablespoons) and
20g for a women (about 1.33 tablespoons). I don’t think a lot of
people will be eating more than that per day.
They
also recommend that we should eat more vegetable oils, which is
totally wrong advice as this will cause inflammation in the body and
cause more health risks. We do need a balance of omega 6 fats in the
diet but not the kind of omega 6 fats found in vegetable oils such as
sunflower oil.
There
is some truth in the AHA report. They are recommending to eat a
mediteranean diet which includes olives, olive oil, nuts and seeds.
This
report has been put together because the pharmaceutical companies and
food manufacturers are worried that we are all paying more attention
to our health and eating for better health therefore reducing the
amount of prescriptions being issued and refusing to eat foods that
are bad for our health.
It
really isn’t that simple just to say that coconut oil is a
saturated fat and is unhealthy to eat. There is more to it than
that. Coconut oil has many benefits, its anti microbial, you don’t
need bile to ingest it, it is great for energy levels and for brain
health too to help prevent alzheimers, seizures and depression. Our
brain is 65% fat after all.
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