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Coconut oil, like any other dietary oil, generally needs to be packaged in a soft gel capsule to make it into a pill. The largest softgel one can make is 1000 mg (1 gram). These are very large pills, and can be very difficult to swallow. The common recommended amount of coconut oil that is generally suggested to take each day for therapeutic value is 3.5 tablespoons.
In a study published in the journal Lipids, 40 women aged 20-40 years old with abdominal obesity were given daily dietary supplements of either soybean oil or coconut oil over the course of 12 weeks. 9 All subjects followed a balanced diet with the same number of calories and were told to walk for 50 minutes daily. By the end of the study, the coconut oil group had significantly higher HDL (good) cholesterol and an improved LDL-to-HDL ratio.