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Coconut Oil

Coconut Oil - Coconut oil is another healthy saturated fat that contains many beneficial properties and helps prevent bacterial, viral, and fungal (including yeast) infections. It also kills off yeast overgrowth. It supports immune system function, supplies important nutrients necessary for good health and improves digestion and nutrient absorption.

The fat in coconut oil is easily digested and absorbed, unlike the newfangled trans fats that act like plastic in the body. It puts little strain on the digestive system and provides a quick source of energy necessary to promote healing.

Coconut oil is absorbed directly from the intestines into the portal vein and sent straight to the liver, whereas other fats require pancreatic enzymes to break them into smaller units.

Look for unrefined coconut oil, since most commercial coconut oils are refined, bleached, and deodorized. It is highly resistant to spoilage and has a long shelf life (up to two (2) years at room temperature). Coconut oil has a high burning point and is a perfect oil for cooking. Coconut oil can be taken by the tablespoonfuls with meals to aid digestion. A good therapeutic dose is 1 to 2 tablespoons with fat containing meals, but it is advisable to start at a low dose of 1 teaspoon with meals, and gradually increase it to a maximum of 5 tablespoons per day.

Coconut Oil and Weight Loss

Not all Fats are Alike. Replacing the fats you now eat with coconut oil may be the wisest decision you can make to lose excess body fat. We often think that the less fat we eat, the better. However, you don't necessarily need to reduce your fat intake, you simply need to choose a fat that is better for you, one that doesn't contribute to weight gain. You can lose unwanted body fat by eating more saturated fat (in the form of coconut oil) and less polyunsaturated fat (processed vegetable oils). One of the remarkable things about coconut oil is that it can help you lose weight. Yes, there is a dietary fat that can actually help you take off unwanted pounds. Coconut oil can quite literally be called a low-fat fat. One of the best benefits of coconut oil lies in its ability to stimulate your metabolism.

The first, extra-virgin olive oil, is a healthy monounsaturated fat. It works great as a salad dressing.However, it is not the healthiest oil to cook with . Due to its chemical structure, cooking makes it susceptible to oxidative damage and increases the risk of disorders such heart disease, among others. P olyunsaturated fats, which include common vegetable oils such as corn, soy, safflower, sunflower and canola, are absolutely the worst oils to use in cooking. Omega-6 oils are especially prone to this because of all the double bonds they have which are highly susceptible to heat damage. These dangerous unsaturated fats are the ones you should ban from your diet, not naturally pure and healthy coconut oil, which contains very few fats with highly perishable double bonds and also has NO TRANS-FATS. There is only one oil that is stable enough to resist heat-induced damage, while it also helps you prevent heart disease, lower cholesterol and even lose weight -- coconut oil. So, whenever you need an oil to cook with, use coconut oil instead of butter, olive oil, vegetable oil or any other type of oil called for in recipes.

Curiously, coconut oil contains the most saturated fat of all edible oils. Although polyunsaturated fats encourage the formation of blood clots by increasing platelet stickiness, coconut oil decreases the tendency for platelets to stick together and form clots . The unique health benefits of coconut oil are directly related to its chemical structure, or more precisely, the length of its fatty acid chains. Coconut oil is comprised of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs), also called medium-chain triglycerides or MCTs. Coconut oil is nature's richest source of these healthy MCFAs.

So, by changing the fats in your diet from the unsaturated long-chain fatty acids found in vegetable or seed oils to the MCFAs in coconut oil, you may find yourself gradually losing those unnecessary pounds with little or no effort.