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Coconut Oil Is Bad For You... Again
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Coconut Oil Is Bad For You... Again

Turns Out The Little Oil That Couldn't Harm  Actually Can

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Why Is This Important?

Because coconut oil was previously thought to be the sole exception to saturated fat’s hard ‘n fast rules of engagement (don’t eat too much or you die).

Long Story Short

The American Heart Association has finally investigated the controversial island nut’s supposed potency, and decided on a verdict of bullshit.

Long Story

Following Marie-Pierre St-Onge’s research into the weight-loss benefits of the medium chain triglycerides in coconut oil as opposed to the long chain triglycerides found in every other saturated fat, coconuts became an unlikely dietary sensation almost overnight. Bam, the celebrities immediately followed and remember how that silly red rope cult thing got started?

After Miranda Kerr revealed she eats tablespoons of the stuff each and every day, coconut oil’s place at the table of populist exception among saturated fat-heavy edibles was set. If a skinny minny like Kerr swears by its unlikely powers of healthful persuasion, why then surely it must also cure a smorgasbord of other ailments such as AIDS. As it turns out, St-Onge’s research was apparently unsound, and used what has been described as “designer oil” that was 100% MCTs rather than the average coconut you’d find hanging out on a palm tree, which is around 15%.

Even in the face of a subsequent study that showed such low doses of MCTs don’t actually do anything for weight loss, the myth had been made manifest.

Yes, things have gotten that out of hand on the internet: Coconut oil fever has escalated with such force it’s even caused an impending coconut shortage in the Caribbean, a place that is just about 99% hairy balls with white stuff inside them. Or was.

Finally fed up, the Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease advisory mobilised, reviewing a bunch of existing data on saturated fat that showed that coconut oil does actually increase LDL (‘bad’ cholesterol) in seven out seven controlled trials. This damning proclamation was the result:


In said trials, the researchers did not see any evidence of coconut oil’s supposed difference to the artery-clogging content of butter, tallow and palm oil.

Coconut oil is on average a whopping 82% saturated fat, whereas the roundly maligned silver medal of butter is 63%. Lead report author Frank Sacks was heard to quip, “You can put it on your body, but don’t put it in your body.”

So while these experts still feel it’s still good for moisturising and hair conditioning and even lube, they’d like to see this dietary trend die in the ass!