Try it!

It all comes back except one tablespoon becomes a reality, and it withstands
up to ~550 degree without becoming rancid.

Melissa Lakewood <Melissa@lakewoodcolorado.xyy> wrote or quoted:

Here's Dr Weil's 2p - from 2003:

http://www.drweil.com/app/cda/drw_cda.html-command=TodayQA-questionId=316479

There are several excellent articles on fats and oils at:
http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/know_your_fats.html

And......they are not selling anything!

This is an empirical  assessment of the health effects coconut oil.  I
grew up in the Far East where coconut milk, and therefore coconut oil,
is common in everyday meals.

A few general words of advice.  Its crazy to pay good money to buy
coconut oil in health food store pure or pill form.  Coconut oil is
bad for your health.   If it is not part of your normal diet don't add
another unknown whose nutritional worth is unproven and may even cause
you harm is taken in pure form..

This "coconut oil is good for you" is a very recent dietary
supplements' marketing ploy to sell stuff based on your insecruities.
We orientals have been eating the stuff for centuries and there is no
tradition of attributing any health benefits to coconut products.  In
fact we are of the opinion that its really not that good for our
health.

But like many I love the taste and aroma of coconut milk in cooked
food.  Coconut milk is the thick white milky stuff squeezed from
mature coconut flesh, not the thin sweet liquid that drains out when a
coconut is cracked open.

You can buy this coconut milk in frozen plastic packs from the Chinese
grocery store and there are lots of recipie books that use coconut
milk.  The curries are exotic and delicious and not that hard to cook.
Or go the easy way and warm up  premade curry from a can.   You can
also buy canned currry in an Indian grocery shop but I find their
stuff less to my tastes.  So if you still think coconut oil is a good
thing get it in the form of an adventurous meal.  It will be the
healthier form of intake and delicious to boot.

Since moving to Canada I rarely get to eat any meals containing
coconut products.  So I have been resensitized to such foods.  This is
what I find that will keep coconut stuff off my meals except for the
rare occasion when I have an urge to eat (canned) curried stew  again.

1.  There is that uncomforatble feeling of "fullness" kind of like
bloating.
2.  The blood feels thick and hard to pump.
3.  The chest feels tight as if something is squeezing it.
4.  I get hot flushes.
5. I spend extra time in the loo.

Now 2, 3 & 4 sound like psycho mumbo jumbo.  But I trust what my body
tells me and don't pretend to understand the chemistry or physiology.
So I rarely eat that stuff anymore.    We have a sizeable community of
immigrants from my part of the world who have arrived the same
conclusion, that coconut milk is way too rich for our diets, and have
eliminated it from out meals.  This assessment is not from reading
nutrition news, none of us care for this kind of reading, and many in
the group are doctors and health professsionals, but because that's
how we react to foods.  We are like lab rats in that we don't have the
many health and food problems that bug our cousins back home.  And
they have a high incidence of high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
heart attacks and stroke, cancer, many early deaths.  Is it due to
coconut milk?  We don't know.  But to us coconuts is a non essential
food and easy to avoid.  We wouldn't dream of buying pure coconut oil
in a pill.

Here's a commercial site that tells about different methods of extracting
coconut oil:
http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/virgin_coconut_oil.htm

I wonder if it's the modern methods of extratction that produce the kind
that causes the problems. I just use the whole canned coconut milk for
cooking.

Skinny
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