[Sca-cooks] Coconut Oil

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

non hydrogenated oils are not bad for you, althoug there are some that are
better and some worse......

so virgin coconut oil woul dbe ok. but it is next to impossible these days
to get NON hydrogenated coconut oil.

best for you is monounsaturated oils. like olive oil.....
Kirsten Houseknecht
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorenz Wieland" <lorenz_wieland at earthlink.net>
To: <Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Coconut Oil


> Samrah wrote:
> > If memory serves, coconut oil is extremely effective at cloging the
> > pores in skin and the arteries in hearts. (I studied esthetics for
> > several years, and oils that clog the pores, clog the arteries.) I
> > must apologize, I can't find the documentation for this at this
> > point, but I am sure coconut is on the "bad oil" list.
>
> Unfortunately, science is making things complicated again, and it's now
much
> more difficult to separate fats into "good" and "bad" categories as
readily.
>
> Hydrogenated coconut oil does increase serum cholesterol levels, just as
all
> other hydrogenated fats do.  However, "virgin" coconut oil, while still
> being 92% saturated, may not be as bad for you as previously thought.
The
> medium-chain triglycerides that comprise much of the fat in coconut oil
seem
> to have some positive health effects, in addition to not raising
> cholesterol.
>
> Tropical societies who get most of the fat in their diet from coconut
and/or
> palm oils do tend to have very low incidence of heart disease.  There was
> also a deliberate campaign of really bad science in the 50s and 60s by the
> U.S. soy industry to undermine the tropical oils, since the soy farmers
saw
> these cheap imports as a direct threat to their industry.
>
> Here's a few decently objective articles on the subject:
>
> http://www.healthlibrary.com/reading/hegde/coconut.htm
> http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/coconut_oil.html
>
> -Lorenz
>
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