Coconut Oil good for weight loss, lowers cholesteral, arthritis, dementia and altzheimers--Who Knew?

hearthwood

This has been quite a topic of discussion with my family members recently. Again the stuff we were told was bad to eat is now supposedly good. It makes sense--as coconut oil is an MTC medium triglyceride chain. Yes it is saturated fat, but a different saturated fat that is easily absorbed through our system and is NOT stored as fat.

So for decades we have been told to not eat any saturated FAT. What has this done, but made us fatter because we're hungry all of the time and eat more. Fatty meats and HTC--(high chain triglycerides) will be stored and it's very diffcult to get rid of, where the MTC found in Palm Oil & Coconut Oil (MTC) are used as energy, and burned quickly. Now I cannot tolerate it in coffee--but that's what some people are doing-but there are other ways to use this including recipes for making your own granola bars, including just eating it out of the jar.

Here is an article from WEB MD and the lower link are some of the studies on this.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/coconut-oil-and-health#1
https://nutritionreview.org/2013/04/medium-chain-triglycerides-mcts/

GottaBurnEmAll

It's contraindicated for people with familial hypercholesterolemia. Hard pass.

PAV8888

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/early/2017/06/15/CIR.0000000000000510

http://www.snopes.com/2017/06/28/aha-coconut-oil/

mph323

hearthwood wrote: »

This has been quite a topic of discussion with my family members recently. Again the stuff we were told was bad to eat is now supposedly good. It makes sense--as coconut oil is an MTC medium triglyceride chain. Yes it is saturated fat, but a different saturated fat that is easily absorbed through our system and is NOT stored as fat.

So for decades we have been told to not eat any saturated FAT. What has this done, but made us fatter because we're hungry all of the time and eat more. Fatty meats and HTC--(high chain triglycerides) will be stored and it's very diffcult to get rid of, where the MTC found in Palm Oil & Coconut Oil (MTC) are used as energy, and burned quickly. Now I cannot tolerate it in coffee--but that's what some people are doing-but there are other ways to use this including recipes for making your own granola bars, including just eating it out of the jar.

Here is an article from WEB MD on this and the next link is the next article are some of the studies on this.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/coconut-oil-and-health#1
https://nutritionreview.org/2013/04/medium-chain-triglycerides-mcts/

From the first article:
Some people say your body handles them differently than the longer-chain fats in liquid vegetable oils, dairy, and fatty meats.

Some people will say anything, that doesn't make it true. As far as the other article goes, the same nutrients are present in lots of other foods as well. Coconut oil is just another food with it's own set of nutrients. It won't make you lose or gain weight on it's own (calorie deficit/surplus does that), and it's nutrient properties are positive or negative only when viewed as part of the diet as a whole.

I agree that demonizing fat was part of the vast rolling wave of diet woo that's perpetuated by misinterpreted study results and the huge profit to be made off the desperate and the gullible. The tide has moved on to newer food myths.

CharlieBeansmomTracey

hearthwood wrote: »

This has been quite a topic of discussion with my family members recently. Again the stuff we were told was bad to eat is now supposedly good. It makes sense--as coconut oil is an MTC medium triglyceride chain. Yes it is saturated fat, but a different saturated fat that is easily absorbed through our system and is NOT stored as fat.

So for decades we have been told to not eat any saturated FAT. What has this done, but made us fatter because we're hungry all of the time and eat more. Fatty meats and HTC--(high chain triglycerides) will be stored and it's very diffcult to get rid of, where the MTC found in Palm Oil & Coconut Oil (MTC) are used as energy, and burned quickly. Now I cannot tolerate it in coffee--but that's what some people are doing-but there are other ways to use this including recipes for making your own granola bars, including just eating it out of the jar.

Here is an article from WEB MD and the lower link are some of the studies on this.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/coconut-oil-and-health#1
https://nutritionreview.org/2013/04/medium-chain-triglycerides-mcts/

any food will be stored as fat in a surplus of calories. and coconut oil is high in calories. I actually gained weight using it because I thought the same things. so no its not going to be used differently than any other type of fat and a surplus of calories means fat storage no matter what it is you are eating.Thats like saying one sugar is processed differently than another and not stored.

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sunfastrose

The title of this thread makes me think of a saying from the Sawbones podcast. "Cure-alls cure nothing."

whitpauly

Its a current fad and actually raised my cholesterol. I'm tired of these fads..

CharlieBeansmomTracey

whitpauly wrote: »

Its a current fad and actually raised my cholesterol. I'm tired of these fads..

mine too but I have familial hypercholesterolemia.

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

I eat it when I'm short on my fat macro and I'm full.

Doesn't do anything else though.

AnvilHead

More "keto magic" woo.

amusedmonkey

Wasn't there buzz lately that the latest studies found it to be "worse than butter" or something? I don't like riding buzz trains so I'm not sure what was the exact issue with it.

Why do people tend to have selective hearing and information is weirdly interpreted? That one earlier study which showed it to be "not as bad as butter for cholesterol but worse than unsaturated fat" somehow morphed in the minds of people and dropped the latter part for some reason then got propagated as "coconut oil is a superfood".

Recommendations to limit saturated fat to a certain value (which I personally think is a reasonable thing to do for some people and doesn't automatically mean a low fat diet) somehow morphs into "we were told not to eat any".

When will this game of telephone end?

And eating it out of a jar? No thank you, I can think of a million more fun ways to spend my calories.

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GottaBurnEmAll

suzannesimmons3 wrote: »

amusedmonkey wrote: »

And eating it out of a jar? No thank you, I can think of a million more fun ways to spend my calories.

Nutella.

I am one of the silent minority who cannot stand the stuff. Now peanut and almond butter? Jar + spoon = bliss.

amusedmonkey

I love Nutella! I can also polish a can of condensed milk with a spoon, so there is that.

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mph323

It's peanut butter for me - and dammit the idea of eating it by the spoon never occurred to me until I was on these boards and reading all the "Help, I binge on peanut butter by the spoonful!" threads.

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Trina2040

I love coconut oil on my skin and hair (especially mixed with Vitamin E), but not in my food or mouth.

Christine_72

Sometimes i add a tsp of coconut oil in my afternoon cup of coffee. I only do this when I've got the munchies and know I'm going to struggle waiting for dinner without snacking. It definitely helps me in this regard.

I only use it for this purpose, i don't chug down the stuff expecting to lose weight because of it :huh:

jennybearlv

Glad to know my grandmother's Alzheimers could have been so easily prevented. How do we not a smiley that's rolling it's eyes?

snickerscharlie

Coconut oil makes truly yummy popcorn.

All those other claims, nope.

rainbowbow

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

It's contraindicated for people with familial hypercholesterolemia. Hard pass.

das me unfortunately

GottaBurnEmAll

rainbowbow wrote: »

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

It's contraindicated for people with familial hypercholesterolemia. Hard pass.

das me unfortunately

And me. I'll live. I love coconut, and if I want something coconut flavored, I'd rather save the splurge for something that has actual coconut, not just the oil.

CharlieBeansmomTracey

rainbowbow wrote: »

GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »

It's contraindicated for people with familial hypercholesterolemia. Hard pass.

das me unfortunately

me too or me 3? lol

lemurcat12

amusedmonkey wrote: »

Wasn't there buzz lately that the latest studies found it to be "worse than butter" or something? I don't like riding buzz trains so I'm not sure what was the exact issue with it.

Sat fat. I thought that claim was pretty weak, actually, but the idea that it's better than butter or olive oil or the calories don't count is even worse.

I use it for cooking because I really like the flavor in some things. I would not eat it plain, ugh, and don't think it does anything special -- wish the idea of magical weight loss foods would go away already.