Fwd: RE: [eczemapsoriasis] coconut oil
mutaxor
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Carisa
Actually, this is a myth. Coconut oil actually helps PREVENT heart disease. Many
people have been tricked by the soybean industry into thinking that all
saturated fats clog your arteries. If this were true, the natives of the Pacific
Island regions would have died out long ago from heart disease. In fact, they
are all incredibly healthy and many don’t even have a WORD for heart attack in
their language. It’s a virtually unknown diease. Please read the FACTS below.
Read The Coconut Oil Miracle by Fife if you want the truth.
Coconut oil: An Unsung Hero
The native people of the Pacific Islands such as Fiji, New Guinea and Polynesia,
enjoy remarkably good health. In many regions, they don’t even have a WORD in
their vocabulary for heart attack because it is a virtually unknown ailment. The
traditional diet of these island natives varies from region to region, but there
is one common denominator: coconut. A traditional diet high in coconut meat,
milk and oil is what keeps these people free from parasites, disease and heart
problems in spite of their very high fat diet. When these islanders abandon
their traditional foods and begin to eat westernized diets, disease creeps into
their lives. You may have question coconut oil and it’s ability to better your
health. Read on to discover how and why coconut oil was villainized and why you
should include this healthy oil in your daily diet for better health.
My doctor told me that tropical oils are bad, why?
Your doctor probably doesn’t know any better! Doctors are not all-knowing gurus
of health. They are just people and nutrition studies are not a big part of
their medical training. Here’s how it happened: the American Soybean Association
villainized coconut oil in the 1980s so they could sell more soybean oil.
Coconuts are chiefly an import crop and soybeans can be grown here in the USA.
Their claim was that all saturated fats, including tropical oils like coconut,
are bad. This is wrong. Coconut oil is a different KIND of saturated fat. It is
made of medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs) that do NOT raise cholesterol or cause
heart problems. They actually protect against heart disease. The healthy fats in
coconut oil are fed to invalids and used in baby formula because they are easy
to digest, fight disease and are very nutritious. Most doctors and the general
public were ignorant about fat chemistry and the brainwashing media convinced
them that this wonderful oil was bad for their
health. Now that Americans are fatter and sicker than ever, they are abandoning
hydrogenated and processed vegetable oils like soy and canola that are extremely
bad for their health and returning to the tropical oils that were once included
in most of our foods.
Won’t coconut oil make me fat?
The MCFAs in coconut oil are digested differently than other saturated fats like
animal fat. These special fatty acids are easily broken down by saliva or
stomach juices and do not require pancreatic enzymes for digestion. Once broken
down, the fatty acids are sent straight to the liver and burned for energy like
a carbohydrate. However, they won’t raise blood sugar or cause weight gain like
carbs can. Rarely will fat from coconuts be stored as fat on our bodies.
Additionally, coconut oil actually RAISES your metabolism. After eating a meal
containing coconut, your metabolism stays high for 24 hours! Coconut has a way
of increasing the energy and metabolism of cells throughout the body creating a
“burn” that melts away fat deposits and gives a boost of long lasting energy.
In addition, polyunsaturated oils like soybean oil actually depress thyroid
activity, lowering your metabolism and making you feel sluggish. It can also
give you persistent dry skin and cause you to have trouble losing excess weight.
The MCFAs in coconut oil do not interfere with thyroid function and give you a
healthy energy boost, making weight loss simple and effortless.
Won’t saturated fats increase my risk of heart disease?
Not the special type of saturated fat in coconut oil! Think about it: If coconut
oil caused heart disease, there would be NO PEOPLE living in the pacific island
regions because they all would have died out long ago from heart attacks. Quite
to the contrary, these native people are very healthy if they stick to their
traditional diet that includes lots of coconut. With a few exceptions, all
saturated, unsaturated, poly and monounsaturated oils INCREASE platelet
aggregation. Basically, they cause the blood to become sticky and clot and
eventually cause a blockage like a stroke or heart attack. The 2 exceptions to
this rule are omega 3 fatty acids and the MCFAs found in coconut oil. These oils
actually help PREVENT heart disease and will not raise your cholesterol.
Even so, people must realize that saturated fats and high cholesterol DO NOT
CAUSE HEART DISEASE. Cholesterol is actually a life saving defense mechanism
that your blood vessels use to keep from bursting. Most people that have heart
disease DO NOT have high cholesterol! Bet your doctor never told you that one!
The real cause of heart disease is much more complex than eating too much butter
and prime rib and clogging your arteries with blobs of fat. Heart disease is
caused when an artery cracks from arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries),
usually because the blood is too acidic because of a poor, acid forming diet.
Injuries to the arteries can also cause heart disease. These injuries can be
caused by bacteria (usually coming from a dirty mouth full of bacteria),
viruses, free radical damage or toxins. The body then uses a mixture of 74%
unsaturated fat (NOT saturated!) and 26% cholesterol like a Band-Aid to patch up
the cracks and injuries in the artery walls so that you don’t
die from internal bleeding. In addition, the platelets in your blood become
sticky and rush to the site of the injury. They then stick to each other and the
damaged artery to patch up the cracks and holes. Your artery is then narrowed by
all of the platelets and plaque sticking to the walls. This is danger time. If a
blood clot (formed by the sticky platelets coming together) gets stuck in one of
the narrow spots in your artery, you’ve got trouble. If it happens in the
carotid artery, you get a stroke. If it happens in the coronary artery, you get
a heart attack. So, high cholesterol does NOT cause heart disease. It is only a
messenger that something is wrong (bacteria, toxins or viruses in the blood or
overly acidic blood) and you need to make a change before it’s too late.
So, How Does Coconut Oil Help Prevent Heart Disease?
As mentioned above, much of the initial damage to the arteries that is the root
cause of heart disease is caused by bad bacteria and viruses. Most bad bacteria,
viruses and fungi as well as some parasites have an almost liquid cell wall made
of fats, or lipids. When coconut oil is eaten, it breaks down into mono and
diglycerides and free fatty acids. It is the monoglycerides and free fatty acids
that come to the rescue. They actually dissolve the lipid cell walls of the bad
microorganisms and kill them. However, the coconut oil won’t harm your body’s
good bacteria because they do not have lipid cell walls. It is almost as if
Mother Nature designed it this way! We have a natural way to kill off the bad
bacteria and other pathogens that can damage the arteries that won’t harm the
good bacteria that we need for a healthy immune system. In addition, coconut oil
is anti-inflammatory when taken internally. Inflammation is at the heart of most
preventable disease, and reducing the
inflammation that promotes platelet aggregation (stickiness) and clots will help
prevent heart disease.
So, Why Should I Believe You Instead of My Doctor?
You don’t have to. There is literally a mountain of clinical evidence from
studies done on coconut and tropical oils. I highly suggest you get the book,
The Coconut Oil Miracle by Dr Fife. It lists hundreds of studies you can read
about coconut oil and gives in-depth information on how it can improve your
health. It even gives recipes for how to begin using coconut oil in your home.
Read the book and you will see why coconut oil is truly an unsung hero!
Alison wrote:
Coconut Oil is horrible for you if you eat it. It’s actually harder than
lard. When I was young I worked at a movie theatre concession stand and they
popped the popcorn in coconut oil. We actually had a "hot stick" we had to
use to melt it because it’s so hard. It’s horrible for your arteries. (But
tastes good) (ha)
Alison
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thanks for the replies….but I thought it was a liquid, like you could add
to a drink? Maybe I got that from the article I read…
I was using a soap made with shea butter (combined with mango and avocado
butters…)
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