Guest guest Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Have read the recipes re: coconut oil, but, does it actually work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Have read the recipes re: coconut oil, but, does it actually work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Have read the recipes re: coconut oil, but, does it actually work? _________________ It actually is very benificial for digestive system problems and for me, it warms me up after eating it for a while. It does seem to increase the metabolic rate. A study done with coconut oil to fatten pigs had the opposit results from expected. They were not able to fatten them and many actually lost weight. The Framingham study, a huge study, found that those who ate the highest amounts of fats in their diets were the leanest and had few health problems. Fats seem to increase metabolic activity. Edna Kyrie, who has to Thyroid History website uses the high fat, low carbohydrate diet devised by Barry Groves and has done well and lost weight. Many of the oils we use today are not traditional but are a 20th century invention. Prior to WWII people ate mostly butter and lard and fried foods like chips were made with coconut oil because it did not require preservatives. Heart disease and cardiovascular disease was actually rare in the 1920s. Then the seed oil industry went on a campeign to change this. Seed oils are very fragile and become rancid almost immediately. These rancid byproducts are very damaging to health. Also, seed oils are oxidative and cause oxidative damage to tissues when eaten. Coconut oil, butter and lard (made with unhormoned meat) are all very stable oils that do not damage tissues. These fats have been used since man has eaten meat and raised animals and lived in tropical areas. Fats deplete thyroid hormone if your thyroid is impaired. So, if you are not on enough replacement or are hypothyroid, fats will cause you to use up your precious little thyroid. But in healthy people it would increase thyroid output and energy expenditure. If you have a conversion problem only, then fats can help, especially coconut oil which seems to increase conversion. Fats can help with some types of thyroid hormone resistance. All the cells in our body have a cell wall around them that is made of fat. Problems with the stucture of the fat walls around cells are thought to cause some types of thyroid hormone resistance as well as other heath problems. The adrenals also have very high fat content. Oils do not make good cell walls because of their structure. Cell walls are made of saturated fats, not the man made kind that Crisco is, but very stable fats with a very regular structure that are found in meats, butter and other natural sources. It is thought that commercial seed oils create leaky cells with problems in tranferring nutrients and other things into and out of the cell. Tish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Have read the recipes re: coconut oil, but, does it actually work? _________________ It actually is very benificial for digestive system problems and for me, it warms me up after eating it for a while. It does seem to increase the metabolic rate. A study done with coconut oil to fatten pigs had the opposit results from expected. They were not able to fatten them and many actually lost weight. The Framingham study, a huge study, found that those who ate the highest amounts of fats in their diets were the leanest and had few health problems. Fats seem to increase metabolic activity. Edna Kyrie, who has to Thyroid History website uses the high fat, low carbohydrate diet devised by Barry Groves and has done well and lost weight. Many of the oils we use today are not traditional but are a 20th century invention. Prior to WWII people ate mostly butter and lard and fried foods like chips were made with coconut oil because it did not require preservatives. Heart disease and cardiovascular disease was actually rare in the 1920s. Then the seed oil industry went on a campeign to change this. Seed oils are very fragile and become rancid almost immediately. These rancid byproducts are very damaging to health. Also, seed oils are oxidative and cause oxidative damage to tissues when eaten. Coconut oil, butter and lard (made with unhormoned meat) are all very stable oils that do not damage tissues. These fats have been used since man has eaten meat and raised animals and lived in tropical areas. Fats deplete thyroid hormone if your thyroid is impaired. So, if you are not on enough replacement or are hypothyroid, fats will cause you to use up your precious little thyroid. But in healthy people it would increase thyroid output and energy expenditure. If you have a conversion problem only, then fats can help, especially coconut oil which seems to increase conversion. Fats can help with some types of thyroid hormone resistance. All the cells in our body have a cell wall around them that is made of fat. Problems with the stucture of the fat walls around cells are thought to cause some types of thyroid hormone resistance as well as other heath problems. The adrenals also have very high fat content. Oils do not make good cell walls because of their structure. Cell walls are made of saturated fats, not the man made kind that Crisco is, but very stable fats with a very regular structure that are found in meats, butter and other natural sources. It is thought that commercial seed oils create leaky cells with problems in tranferring nutrients and other things into and out of the cell. Tish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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