Coconut Oil Myths:
Legitimate Misconceptions or
Coordinated Lies?

Coconut oil health blessings are too awesome for you to not know. It is my sincerest wish and hope for you to know the coconut oil (CNO) truths and spread them all at will, respectively.

Are you ready to separate fact from fiction? Here we go:

Myth # 1: Coconut oil promotes heart disease

This is probably the biggest lie of them all. The claim that coconut oil causes heart disease by clogging your arteries (atherogenic) is TOTALLY WITHOUT scientific basis. Yet it never stopped leading detractors from spreading this atrocity up to now. Talk about brainwashing.

Studies accusing coconut oil of promoting heart disease all used hydrogenated coconut oil. All hydrogenated oils (soybean, corn, coconut, etc.) contain trans fatty acids. These unnatural fatty acids cause all kinds of health problems, including heart disease.

So why single out coconut oil?

Myth # 2: Coconut oil is just like animal fats

Animal fats such as lard and beef tallow are high in saturated fats, just like coconut oil. In fact, coconut oil is 92% saturated fat. But wait, there's more! They conveniently forgot to tell you that coconut oil's fat molecules are predominantly medium chain fatty acids (MCFA).

Beef tallow, lard and many vegetable oils are mainly long chain fatty acids (LCFA). And believe me, MCFAs are very different from LCFAs. MCFAs don't travel in your bloodstream like LCFAs do. MCFAs generously found in coconut oil go straight to your liver to be converted to energy or fuel to power your metabolism.

Remember this. LCFAs' and MCFAs' absorption, transport, metabolism and uses are entirely different. Almost all dietary fats or oils, whether animal or plant source, are chiefly LCFAs. Coconut oil as mentioned is primarily MCFAs which makes it unique. It's also nature's richest source of these health-boosting MCFAs. Don't forget this.

Myth # 3: Coconut oil is rich in cholesterol

Coconut oil has NO CHOLESTEROL! I don't mean to shout at you but there are days when I'm just sick and tired of this mumbo jumbo. People who take large amounts of coconut oil like the Polynesians, Indians, Sri Lankans and my Bicolano brothers here in the Philippines have low cholesterol. Please help me put this coconut oil myth to rest.

Myth # 4: Polyunsaturated oils are the best and safest

Wrong. Polyunsaturated oils are the beginning of allergic leukotrienes, inflammatory prostaglandins, blood clot inducing thromboxane and when partly hydrogenated are transformed to trans fatty acids which are even more atherogenic.

..... more myths to follow .....