Coconut Oil Question

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

YES, he is!

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"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..

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.

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"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.