Summary
Because it raises cholesterol (both good and bad) individuals are often advised to stay away from coconut oil, but US News is reporting some diet book authors feel the negative effects of coconut oil are overblown, and that it can actually help people lose weight.
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- The authors say the oil has been wrongly maligned, lost in the pro-soybean frenzy.
- And, they say, rather than undermining your health, it heals, improves, and protects it.
- This is because the oil contains medium chain fatty acids, which they say are easily absorbed, the energy created is rapidly spent, and, they add, consumption boosts metabalism.
- "Add 800 calories of fat and lose weight?"
- asks Alice Lichtenstein, professor of nutrition at the Friedman School at Tufts University and coauthor of the new Strong Women, Strong Hearts.
- The Harvard School of Public Health website says coconut oil raises both types of cholesterol, the heart-plaque-causing LDL and the desirable HDL.
- And Dr. Andrew Weil, a proponent of natural medicine, has looked at both sides of the argument.
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