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No study or research in the world proves that pure or virgin coconut oil (VCO) promotes heart disease – nada, squat, nil, zilch, void, zip, zero, nothing…!
What you will find are studies that used hydrogenated coconut oil. No wonder the results pointed to an increased heart problem risk! All hydrogenated vegetable oils including soybean and corn oils are heart UNhealthy.
Soybean oil and corn oil, just to name a couple, are composed entirely of long chain triglycerides (LCT). Coconut oil is predominantly medium chain triglycerides (MCT).
To cut a long story short, LCTs are eventually packaged into little bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins, which are then funneled into your bloodstream.
Small particles of fat are unleashed during circulation. This is the source of the fat that accumulates in your fat cells! This is also the source of the fat that collects in and blocks artery walls!
Coconut oil’s plentiful MCTs are not packaged into lipoproteins. MCTs digest so easily into medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) and are quickly absorbed into the portal vein and sent straight to your liver.
Your liver uses MCFAs as a source of fuel to produce energy – to power metabolism. MCTs or MCFAs rarely contribute to excess fat buildup.
Because of its incredible stability, coconut oil does not form trans fatty acids. Please visit why are trans fats bad for more on the trans fat menace.
MCFAs energize your cells even without insulin which is central to the coconut oil and diabetes beneficial link.
MCT- or MCFA-rich coconut oil does not raise cholesterol and it does not cause heart disease. It actually even prevents it!
Coconut oil is, truly, a heart-healthy oil.
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