Coconut Oil: Good for Cooking but No Miracle Cure
The American Heart Association (AHA) recently came out with a presidential advisory that coconut oil should be avoided for heart health due to its saturated fat content. Meanwhile, many people in the natural medicine community have been promoting coconut oil as a great way to lose weight based on an extrapolation of research done by Marie-Pierre St-Onge, Ph.D. at Columbia University. So where is the truth? The answer is somewhere in the middle. Coconut Oil & Saturated Fats It’s important to note that saturated fats got a bad reputation in part due to hydrogenated fats (also known as trans fats)