Coconut Oil good or bad? saturated FAT?

On a side note. Coconut oil is AMAZING for your skin! Topically of course. I work in the beauty industry with a focus on make up artistry and skin health. I have to tell you I have seen some amazing results with this on the skin. Especially for those with skin conditions and sensitive skin. As far as eating it I would stay clear!

I'm glad so many more people are embracing coconut oil. It's amazing. OP did you notice most people on this thread that consume coconut oil are fit and healthy looking? That says a lot, imo.

NO NO...... Your amazing!

mdwy62,

I know you must be well-intentioned, but your post is a perfect example of the result of decades of lobbying against saturated fats and cholesterol. Many people are under this spell. About two and a half years ago, I had my eyes opened. Since then, I have not and will not- ever pick up another bottle of vegetable oil again. I will never go back, especially after I've seen the horrible effects of Alzheimer's on friends' families; I would do anything to keep my parents from going through that.

Anyone trying to limit their intake of cholesterol and saturated fat, and subsequently eating loads of unsaturated vegetable oils and carbohydrates instead (including fruit juice and diet soda) is setting themselves up for a plethora of middle-late adulthood diseases: Dementia, Loss of Libido, Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and especially... Alzheimer's.
Those don't sound very appealing. I will do whatever I can to protect the people I care about from these horrible man-perpetuated diseases...
That means spending a little extra money to be able to scoop into a container full of beautiful, creamy coconut oil for the rest of my life and pretty much guarantee that I won't ever need to worry about harming my cardiovascular system or my brain function (try saying that about inflammation-inducing polyunsaturated frankenstein-oil.) I will eat organic, grass-fed beef and feel assured that I'm giving my body the nutrition it needs to stay satisfied until my next meal, and I'll eat butter- delicious, organic butter that's rich and creamy and made from the milk of grass-fed, free-range cows and spread it on organic sprouted grain toast, knowing that I am treating not only my tastebuds, but also treating my body, making a "cheers" to a healthy life. I won't ever touch anything labeled "low-fat" or "low-cholesterol" because I prefer my food to actually be food- not chemically modified junk that perpetuates the ridiculous lie that eating fat makes you fat.

You most likely believe the opposite- that saturated fat is the bad one and that unsaturated oil is good for your heart. Well, my friends- that is exactly why millions of people are having heart failure and cognitive impairments that they possibly can never recover from because they keep doing the exact thing that made them sick in the first place: listening to advice like this: "Watch that cholesterol level, Mr. Smith- only use the egg whites- throw away the yolk and don't eat red meat. Make an appointment to see me again in a month and check if you got that cholesterol to go down!..." then following that advice, and continuing to need hospital care for years and years until ultimately a heart attack takes its final blow.

We are not supposed to have heart problems. They only started happening when we started chemically extracting oil from corn and making margarine; and when we started feeding our kids purple, red, and blue colored drinks pumped with corn syrup and ascorbic acid (artificial vitamin C), and when we gave kids fruit-flavored corn cereal that started their mornings with about 100 grams of sugar after counting the milk, the OJ and the poptart, and wondering why diabetes went through the roof.
You are probably confused because I started the paragraph talking about the heart, and then started talking about carbs. Yes, you read correctly. And the fact that you are surprised by this is another example of how amazingly effective a billion dollar industry can be at covering up the truth from everyone.

If you care about the people you love, then at least... think about how little sense it makes for us to be encouraged, by the American Heart Association, to increase the intake of an oil that was intentionally manufactured to promote obesity (with the unfortunate collateral of liver failure and other diseases) in livestock, including pigs and then marketed for human consumption because there was a surplus in corn. (named "canola oil" after mixing a bunch of other chemically-altered oils that were originally used only in industrial products like paint varnish, and were never fit for consumption by any living thing.)