Coconut Oil Question

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  • chanson104
    chanson104 Posts: 859
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  • Shannon2714
    Shannon2714 Posts: 843 Member
    I have 3 different types in my house.

    ---I have an organic coconut oil that is in my bathroom and for hair/skin/etc. I love it! I doesn't cause acne so it is an AMAZING moisturizer!

    ---I have a huge thing of coconut cooking oil in my kitchen next to my stove that I use for cooking.

    ---I have an organic coconut BUTTER that is raw coconut in all forms that I use for eating. I've used it in my coffee, and it's good, but I use it mostly on toast with peanut butter and jelly. It is AMAZING!
  • Shannon2714
    Shannon2714 Posts: 843 Member

    Wow, coconut oil is MEDIUM chain triglyceride, not short or long chained. Dr Oz is an idiot.

    YES, he is!
  • smor27
    smor27 Posts: 87
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  • bewitchinglife
    bewitchinglife Posts: 167 Member
    [quote/]

    "Anyway, no we don't use canned coconut milk. It's not available. Even if it were, coconut is cheap and abundant. Pretty much everyone has access to them and grow them. I would love to see the studies you have seen. Mostly, what I've found have been opinion pieces. Very little by way of actual scientific literature that posits health benefits to the use of coconut oil."
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    Um... no. Coconut is not readily available to everyone. It is not cheap for everyone and not everyone can grow it. For those of us in the Northern latitudes, it's expensive, rare and impossible to grow.

    Coconut oil is huge part of my diet, it is one of the only added fats I ingest and when I started eating it my body started letting go of it's stored fat in a noticeable way.

    Anyone that listens to the FDA gets what they pay for which is absolute zilch. When they start conducting their own independent research then *maybe* they will be worth listening to. At the moment, they are in the pocket of every big food business in our country. Not who I get my nutritional information from, that's for certain.

    ETA: **Dang. I can't get the quote thing to work right..
  • issyfit
    issyfit Posts: 1,077 Member
    ETA: **Dang. I can't get the quote thing to work right..

    In front put the word quote in brackets and after put /quote in brackets.
  • honeybfly002
    honeybfly002 Posts: 35
    I use it as a cleanser and moisturizer...face and body. It has a very high fat content that leaves my skin soft and supple. I tried incorporating it into my diet...just a tablespoon or so regularly but I found that it stalled my weight loss. Every body is different so I just stick to using it externally.
  • Unbruisedpeach
    Unbruisedpeach Posts: 40 Member
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  • JayByrd107
    JayByrd107 Posts: 282 Member
    [quote/]

    "Anyway, no we don't use canned coconut milk. It's not available. Even if it were, coconut is cheap and abundant. Pretty much everyone has access to them and grow them. I would love to see the studies you have seen. Mostly, what I've found have been opinion pieces. Very little by way of actual scientific literature that posits health benefits to the use of coconut oil."

    Um... no. Coconut is not readily available to everyone. It is not cheap for everyone and not everyone can grow it. For those of us in the Northern latitudes, it's expensive, rare and impossible to grow.

    Coconut oil is huge part of my diet, it is one of the only added fats I ingest and when I started eating it my body started letting go of it's stored fat in a noticeable way.

    Anyone that listens to the FDA gets what they pay for which is absolute zilch. When they start conducting their own independent research then *maybe* they will be worth listening to. At the moment, they are in the pocket of every big food business in our country. Not who I get my nutritional information from, that's for certain.

    ETA: **Dang. I can't get the quote thing to work right..


    I believe that they are referring to thier own personal situation in response to a question that someone asked them specifically. In India, where they are from, coconut is cheap and abundant. Likely, your oil that you love so much was grown and made there.

    Chill.
  • Firesign
    Firesign Posts: 169 Member
    interesting read! saving to read later.

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