4.10.2012

Coconut Oil Good For Weight Loss

By Aaron Millane


Coconut oil fats are they good for you or are they bad for you? Generally, when individuals hear the word "fat" the first belief that comes up is, fat isn't good. There's a lot of truth in that, in fact, fat is quite harmful to the human body. Excess fat within the body could potentially cause many diseases like diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease but not all fats harm the body.

There are actually fats that help as opposed to harm your body. The Omega-3 fat from fish oil that helps your heart is a perfect example of a good fat. Another example of good fat is Lauric Acid which is present in breast milk. This is the one of the major explanations why breast fed infants are not as likely to obtain infections. Lauric Acid makes up nearly half of the fat content in coconut oil. If it is the truth, how come coconut oil being treated as being the enemy of everything healthy?

The idea that coconut oil is detrimental to the body began throughout the late 50's with the anti-saturated fat campaigns. In those days, researchers found out that cases of heart disease were high and hydrogenated vegetable fats were the main cause. The edible oil industry's defense to that were to advise that it was the saturated fats in the oil. Long story short, coconut oil, which includes high amounts of saturated fats, fell from grace.

Exactly why are experts wanting to disprove that idea today? They're disproving it because the wrong information about coconut oil essential fatty acids are misleading people into thinking that there isn't any good benefits when in fact, it does more good than harm to your overall health. Did you know that Lauric Acid turns into monolaurin when it's inside of your body? Monolaurin destroys fungus, viruses and bacteria that invade your system. Lauric acid has only two natural sources the first source is breast milk and the second source is coconut oil.

Coconut oil fatty acids are some of the Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) your system needs for it to stay in tip-top shape yet, the majority of the human population is not consuming enough EFA rather the majority consumes more trans fats. Trans fat decreases good cholesterol and increases bad cholesterol and this inevitably contributes to various coronary diseases like artery obstructions. Both EFA and trans fat originate from food so, watch what you eat.

Coconut oil essential fatty acids are highly saturated efas, isn't that generally bad? No, it isn't bad because unlike other saturated fats that have Long-chain fatty acids, coconut oil fatty acids contain medium-chain fatty acids. Size matters for fatty acids, smaller the better.


Your body processes fats, the pace of the processing of the fat is dependent upon the size of the fatty acids. Long-chain fatty acids get processed slower because it needs to undergo a longer process before being readily available for use, however, small-chain and medium-chain fatty acids are immediately available for your body to use.




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