Coconut Oil – The Truth & The Myths Exposed
As consumers, we have been bombarded constantly over the past 40-50 years by the so called authorities about fats: saturated fats, unsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, hydrogenated fats, good fats, bad fats, you name it fats and unfortunately, the information released to the masses in western society has been misleading (based on old, out of date data and plain inaccurate and misleading studies), to the detriment of the health of people in our communities. One thing that is becoming increasingly clear is that the old school mantra of bashing coconut oil as being bad for you, is fast becoming flawed. What needs to be noted is that early studies done on coconut oil many years ago that returned less than favourable results used partially hydrogenated coconut oil NOT unrefined virgin coconut oil. Hydrogenated oil is not the same as unrefined oil and it
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