I am new to this forum, and 1 month in to keto diet! Lost 15 lbs and never felt this great! I add coconut oil to food, or even sometimes just eat it with spoon. But recently I came across this article on the news:
Any feedback on this?
Coconut oil on the news
sinan
(Sinan)
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Wishbone
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Yet more rubbish from Harvard! They must be worried about other oil sales, or something lol
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
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Well, the professor described in the article says that coconut oil is more dangerous than lard because it almost exclusively contains saturated fatty acids, ones that can clog the coronary arteries.
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Coconut oil contains a significant percentage of monounsaturated fats, which is why it is the source of many brands of MCT oil.
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The idea that saturated fat in the diet “clogs the arteries” has been thoroughly debunked. In fact the highest concentration of triglycerides in the blood is caused by eating carbohydrate, not fat. This was shown in several early studies.
The Harvard School of Public Health was founded by money from the sugar industry, from which it still gets a fair amount of research money. Since Frederick Stare, the school’s founder and first director, took money from the sugar industry to write research studies blaming obesity and diabetes on saturated fat (so as to take public scrutiny off the ill effects of sugar), it is not surprising that the school would hire a professor who feels the way Karin Michels does.
The surprising part is that Business Insider actually mentions a couple of recent studies showing benefits of a ketogenic diet.