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The table below shows you the constitution of common dietary fats and oils in relation to each other:
Composition of Dietary Oils and Fats
| FAT OR OIL | PERCENT OF SATURATED FATS | PERCENT OF MONOUNSATURATED FATS | PERCENT OF POLYUNSATURATED FATS |
| Canola | 6 | 62 | 32 |
| Safflower | 10 | 13 | 77 |
| Sunflower | 11 | 20 | 69 |
| Corn | 13 | 25 | 62 |
| Olive | 14 | 77 | 9 |
| Soybean | 15 | 24 | 61 |
| Chicken | 31 | 47 | 22 |
| Lard | 41 | 47 | 12 |
| Palm | 51 | 39 | 10 |
| Beef | 52 | 44 | 4 |
| Butter | 66 | 30 | 4 |
| Coconut | 92 | 6 | 2 |
As you can see, coconut oil is almost entirely saturated. But you might ask. Isn't beef fat and lard saturated fats as well and are common contributors to being overweight?
Coconut oil is mostly Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT) or Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFA). Animal fats, soybean oil, corn oil, and almost all other dietary fats are entirely Long Chain Triglycerides (LCT) or Long Chain Fatty Acids (LCFA).
Unlike MCFAs, LCFAs mostly circulate throughout your body. As long as you're eating enough to satisfy your energy requirements, LCFAs in your food will end up in fat cells. Hence, the extra weight.
MCFAs, on the other hand, are sent straight to your liver for the production of energy. Your body uses them to make fuel for metabolism rather than store it as body fat.
A study supervised in Canada's McGill University concluded that if you change all the LCT oils in your diet like soybean oil into MCT oils such as coconut oil, you can lose up to 36 pounds of excess fat per year.
Note that all you got to do is have an oil-change. No replacing diets. Same calorie consumption. Just make sure you're cooking with coconut oil.
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