Re: [Biofuel] Re: Coconut :FOOD vS FUEL

2005-02-10 Thread Kirk McLoren
I think coconut was advocated as the choice for a cooking oil. Also perhaps one should correspond with Mercola and ask him what he based his decision on rather than assuming he made it simply on the basis of saturated/unsaturated. He does answer mail, I challenged him on his grain bias and he resp

Re: [Biofuel] Re: Coconut :FOOD vS FUEL

2005-02-10 Thread bob allen
Advocate. Although the results reported are certainly encouraging, and I really don't mean to disparage the Annamalai Researchers, I personally could only consider these results as suggestive at best. Here is why: Most importantly the trial was not blind; that is, the folks that got the se

Re: [Biofuel] Re: Coconut :FOOD vS FUEL

2005-02-10 Thread Kirk McLoren
Greetings Pannir. I agree but I want to re emphasize that I think we could grow better oils than canola and soy for human consumption. For example sesame-- http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/06/23/sesame_oil_lowers_blood_pressure.htm Sesame oil lowers BP By Kylie Taggart TAMIL NADU, INDI

Re: [Biofuel] Re: Coconut :FOOD vS FUEL

2005-02-09 Thread Pannir P.V
Hello Bab and Kirk Starting from this important thread about canola oil , this is very good to know the importance of several oils as this use is more important than the use of BIOD. I fully agree with the Kirk information and hence food use of the several oth