Re: Coconut Oil (in PHilippines)

[Guest guest]

> I would be interested to know if there are other vcno

> users in this list coming from the Philippines.

>

> BTW, would you (or anyone here) be interested in

> joining an association of vcno users based in the

> Philippines?

- Am in the Philippines as well and am just now reading up on

VCNO. Would be interested in that organization. Do you have a website?

Follow up question: Does commercially available coconut and palm

cooking oil (i.e. Minola and Baguio Oil) have the same health

benefits as the virgin variety?

[Guest guest]

> Enig also stated: " The problems for coconut oil started four decades

> ago when researchers fed animals hydrogenated coconut oil that was

> purposely altered to make it completely devoid of any essential

fatty

> acids...The animals fed the hydrogenated coconut oil (as the only

fat

> source) naturally became essential fatty acid deficient; their serum

> cholesterol increased

Thanks - normally though Dr. Enig and Shilavy are on the same

page so to have them contradict each other is odd - so I'm going to

find out if the hydrogenated coconut oil " purposely altered to make

it devoid of any essential fatty acids " used in the lab experiments

is the same as the hydrogenated coco oil used in food processing

simply to raise the melting point of the fat. (time to hunt down a

food chemist) All in all though, its a whole 'nother category of

processed foods to avoid again.

[Guest guest]

from Dr. Fife's book, only unsaturated oils can be hydrogenated. They

make the unsaturated oil saturated by adding hydrogen atoms to

unpaired carbon atoms. Coconut oil got its bad rep from being a

saturated fat. But not all saturated fats are the same.

> Hydrogenated coconut oil is what has gotten a bad rep for

all

> coconut oils. Hydrogenated oil use can lead to heart disease, I am

> told.

>

> Alobar

>

>

[Guest guest]

My apologies. I should have added...Coconut oil could be hydrogenated

to some degree since it also has a little unsaturated fats.

Blex

> > > Hydrogenated coconut oil is what has gotten a bad rep

for

> > all

> > > coconut oils. Hydrogenated oil use can lead to heart disease, I

> am

> > > told.

> > >

> > > Alobar

> > >