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http://www.ejmanager.com/mnstemps/20/20-1382676485.pdfVarious studies, including our own works have shown that coconut oil does not increase serum cholesterol level. The major fat in mother’s milk is the same lauric acid as in coconut oil. Baby foods all over the world do contain lauric acid (that from coconut oil) as the prominent ingredient. The plaques in the diseased coronary arteries contain mainly long chain fatty acids (seen in other oils) and not medium chain fatty acids (of coconut oil); and this is the same irrespective of whether one takes sunflower oil or coconut oil. All these findings indicate that coconut oil is neutral with respect to atherogenicity (plaque formation and eventual heart attack). Other beneficial effects include that coconut oil increases serum HDL cholesterol; it produces very little free radicals, as opposed to other oils; it is rapidly absorbed, rapidly metabolized and so does not get deposited and it helps in resisting invading micro-organisms.
https://www.facebook.com/JeffNovickRD/posts/243148812386487Coconut water is about 50% sugar and about 8% saturated fat. Turns out their nutrition claims are cuckoo also
iowamv wrote:I don't think Campbell is saying sat fat is healthy, nor that it is benign.
TC Campbell wrote:Very simply, I am not aware of any serious evidence on function, which suggests that dietary saturated fat or cholesterol are causes of heart disease or cancer. Associations of these dietary factors with these diseases are nothing more than reflections of the consumption of animal-based foods and, by inference, inverse associations with whole plant-based foods (i.e., remember that animal-based foods tend to displace plant-based foods).
Jumpstart wrote:I think what he has concluded is that since our bodies store excess calories as saturated fat and feeds that fat back to us it wouldn't make sense that nature would have designed the body to kill itself with heart disease. And since we are animals we are "eating" animal saturated fat on a continuous basis every hour of every day. He feels it's the animal protein that's the real problem. And since you can't separate animal protein for saturated fat just stay away from both.
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