Is coconut oil suitable for cooking as olive oil? If so, where does one purchase it locally? Pete >>Next time you are doing a bit of searching on the net, why not also enter in "coconut" along with your cholesterol and oil search words. Virgin coconut oil, fresh from the nut, not the stuff made from copra and bleached and refined and deodorised and hydrogenated etc. In Australia, look at Kokonut in Canberra www.kokonutpacific.com.au. And elsewhere people are highly praising some of the oils available out there. It seems to be "fair trade" oriented too, so the growers are not being exploited and disrespected. Rowena
> And the original natives of Alaska ate almost nothing but meat and fat > and never had heart disease before being introduced to processed > foods. >> Cholesterol is a red herring. The real culprit is industrial >> vegetable oils and trans-fats. At the beginning of the 1900s, >> people ate animal fats on a regular basis. http://www.coconutoil-online.com/ They have a newsletter Interesting information on the different grades of coconut oil Also an online purchase source for USA Also a diet book "Eat Fat Lose Fat" Book "Coconut Oil for Health and Beauty" Free sample for postage of $1.50 here: http://www.coconutoil-online.com/best_coconut_%20oil.html "Because coconut oil is, in large part, made up of medium chain triglycerides (MCT) it doesn't have to be broken down in the digestive tract like other fats and can immediately be used by the body as fuel. ideal for people with slow metabolism or low thyroid (hypothyroidism), Crohn's Disease, colitis. other digestive disorders who normally have problems digesting fats. Since coconut oil burned by body as fuel rather than being stored as fat, ideal for weight loss. Dr. Bruce Fife: coconut oil good for diabetics, not only does not contribute to disease but helps control blood sugar. .. use of coconut oil in combating chronic fatigue, candida, and parasites as well as for skin and hair care."
