Colds

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I have read these posts for quite some time. I started taking the

coconut oil in September for health reasons. I must admit it has

worked nicely on my dry skin problems if it is applied frequently. I

take it in my coffee in the morning and again in the evening, plus

lather my body in it daily and rub gently until all has been

absorbed. I have Bruce's book about the oil.

I have read about it's healing properties. What I don't understand

is that for someone who in the past would get a cold maybe every two

years or so which is fabulous for someone who has had Lyme Disease

for almost 30 years, I have had 3 colds since I started taking the

coconut oil. In three months. When I do get a cold, I put more

coconut oil in my homemade chicken soup and drink that throughout the

day. My question is why is my health getting worse? My colds have

been milder than usual, often in the past,I would get so sick from a

cold that I would end up with bronchitis and be in bed for about a

solid week due to the weakened state of my body due to Lyme Disease.

Now I don't get as sick, but it lasts and lasts and lasts, never

quite got over the last one from about a month ago, and am now sick

again. Help.

My next question is that I am taking it for health reasons and was

about 116 pounds when I started taking it so I didn't need to lose

any weight. I eat healthy, about half the food I consume is pasture

fed, I eat lots of veggies, and sprouted grain bread, lots of cod

liver oil, and goat's milk butter. In the last year we changed our

diet to The Weston Price foundations suggestions and I did lose

almost immediately about 25 pounds that I had carried with me for a

few years due to Lyme disease meds. I have since lost another 5

pounds since taking the coconut oil and I am and down to 111. I am

only 5'7 and was always a skinny child and my family was happy that I

had put on weight in the past 10 years or so, but since changing to a

healthier diet I now am really starting to look as though I should be

in a concentration camp again. Most of my weight was around my

stomach and hips area, which I don't miss, but my arms and legs have

no fat on them whatsoever. How can I put weight on to be at a

healthy level or will I be destined to be skin and bones for the rest

of my life? Any help would be appreciated.