Nice post
"KLM" <
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> On 1 Mar 2004 17:06:36 -0700, Melissa Lakewood <
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> >I've been digging around for months now, and can't get to the bottom of this.
> >
> >For many years, I've been hearing that oils that are solids at room temperature can clog the
> >arteries and cause heart attacks, and to avoid coconut oil. Even the movie inmdustry stopped
> >using it, I heard.
> >
> >So now there are all these web sites saying that it's actually a lie, coconut oil is really
> >healthy for us in so many ways, etc. But I notice that they're usually connected with some site
> >selling coconut oil, or
some
> >group for advocating it.
> >
> >So WHERE can I find the real latest scientific info on this, from an unbiased impartial
> >scientific authoritative source?
> >
> >
> This is an empirical assessment of the health effects coconut oil. I grew up in the Far East where
> coconut milk, and therefore coconut oil, is common in everyday meals.
>
> A few general words of advice. Its crazy to pay good money to buy coconut oil in health food store
> pure or pill form. Coconut oil is bad for your health. If it is not part of your normal diet don't
> add another unknown whose nutritional worth is unproven and may even cause you harm is taken in
> pure form..
>
> This "coconut oil is good for you" is a very recent dietary supplements' marketing ploy to sell
> stuff based on your insecruities. We orientals have been eating the stuff for centuries and there
> is no tradition of attributing any health benefits to coconut products. In fact we are of the
> opinion that its really not that good for our health.
>
> But like many I love the taste and aroma of coconut milk in cooked food. Coconut milk is the thick
> white milky stuff squeezed from mature coconut flesh, not the thin sweet liquid that drains out
> when a coconut is cracked open.
>
> You can buy this coconut milk in frozen plastic packs from the Chinese grocery store and there are
> lots of recipie books that use coconut
> milk. The curries are exotic and delicious and not that hard to cook. Or go the easy way and warm
> up premade curry from a can. You can also buy canned currry in an Indian grocery shop but I
> find their stuff less to my tastes. So if you still think coconut oil is a good thing get
> it in the form of an adventurous meal. It will be the healthier form of intake and
> delicious to boot.
>
> Since moving to Canada I rarely get to eat any meals containing coconut products. So I have been
> resensitized to such foods. This is what I find that will keep coconut stuff off my meals except
> for the rare occasion when I have an urge to eat (canned) curried stew again.
>
> 1. There is that uncomforatble feeling of "fullness" kind of like bloating.
> 2. The blood feels thick and hard to pump.
> 3. The chest feels tight as if something is squeezing it.
> 4. I get hot flushes.
> 5. I spend extra time in the loo.
>
> Now 2, 3 & 4 sound like psycho mumbo jumbo. But I trust what my body tells me and don't pretend to
> understand the chemistry or physiology. So I rarely eat that stuff anymore. We have a sizeable
> community of immigrants from my part of the world who have arrived the same conclusion, that
> coconut milk is way too rich for our diets, and have eliminated it from out meals. This assessment
> is not from reading nutrition news, none of us care for this kind of reading, and many in the
> group are doctors and health professsionals, but because that's how we react to foods. We are like
> lab rats in that we don't have the many health and food problems that bug our cousins back home.
> And they have a high incidence of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and stroke,
> cancer, many early deaths. Is it due to coconut milk? We don't know. But to us coconuts is a non
> essential food and easy to avoid. We wouldn't dream of buying pure coconut oil in a pill.
>