Coconut Oil Fights Disease
Coconut oil has been falsely labeled bad for your body because of it’s saturated fat. Research has now enlightened us to the real facts. For years coconut oil has been labeled as bad fat and to be avoided. This idea was promoted by doctors and other health practitioners who didn’t know about the different molecular structure of fats. For this reason many people avoided it and still do to this day. Despite evidence in clinical research that coconut oil is completely safe and beneficial for the body, many people still avoid it by clinging to past false beliefs.
Fats consist of fatty acid molecules. You can classify fats as,
Saturated fats
Monounsaturated fats
Polyunsaturated fats
Yes coconut oil consists of 92% saturated fat. However, the chemical structure of this fat is different than the saturated fat found in
Lard
Beef
Chicken,
Butter
Olive oil
Corn oil
Soy oil
All vegetable oils.
But, it is to best understand fats and their activity in the body, it is better to know about their molecular size, such as,
Short chain fatty acids (SCFA’s)
Medium chain fatty acids (MCFA’s)
Long chain fatty acids (LCFA’s)
The size of the chain refers to the amount of carbon atoms that form a string in the molecule. SCFA’s have 4-6 carbons attached to each other, MCFA’s have 8, 10, and 12 carbons attached to each other, and LCFA’s have 14 or more carbons attached to each other.
Coconut oil consists mainly of MCFA’s and most all other oils and fats that we eat as listed up above, starting with lard, consist of LCFA’s.
Coconut oil (MCFA’s) does not clog your arteries and promote heart disease like other fats (LCFA’s.) In fact coconut oil,
Prevents heart disease
Protects against various cancers
Dissolves kidney stones
Balances blood sugar levels to control diabetes
Kills pathogens
Protects your skins from free radical damage
Increases metabolism and energy
And the list goes on and on
Because coconut oil is a MCFA’s it is easy to digest and assimilate. It requires little enzymes to breakdown to be absorbed into the blood. Whereas, saturated fat (LCFA’s) requires bile from the liver and gallbladder to break it down to droplets so that it can be digested properly.
So for those of you who don’t digest fats good or who don’t have a gallbladder, you should be eating coconut oil or coconut products, such as milk, water, or meat. But these should be natural and not processed.
One important fact about fats is that we need them. That is one reason I write about taking the essential fatty acids. But, one benefit of coconut oil is that it is easily digested and moves into your blood stream quickly where it can help you absorb other fat soluble vitamins such as vitamin A, E, D and K; it also helps you absorb calcium, magnesium and iron.
This is just a quick note to tell you about the importance of incorporating coconut into your diet. I now cook with coconut oil since it is able with stand high temperatures, before breaking down into free radicals, than olive oil and other vegetable oils. And remember the oils to stay away from are corn oil, canola oil, and all other vegetable oils. These oils have have more omega-6 than omega-3 and lead to body inflammation.
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