Coconut Oil and Its Healing Miracles

Losing weight with coconut oil:

Using coconut oil products to lose wieght! Sounds impossible isn’t it! But, if you replace the fats you now eat with coconut oil you can lose unwanted body fat. How is that possible?

All fats, whether they be saturated or unsaturated, from corn, contain the same number of calories. the medium chain fatty acids (MFCA) in coconut oil, however, are different. They contain a little less. Because of the small size of the fatty acids that make up coconut oil (MCT), which is derived from coconut oil consists of 75 percent caprylic acid and 25 percent capric acid, has an effective energy value of only 6.8 calories per gram. This is much less than the 9 calories per gram supplied by the other fats. Coconut oil has at least 2.56 percent fewer calories per gram of fat than long-chain fatty acids (LFCA). This means that by using coconut oil in place of other oils your caloric intake is less.

This small reduction in calories is only part of the picture. The amount of calories coconut oil contributes is in effect closer to that of carbohydrates because it is digested and processed differently than other fats. The MFCA are not packaged into lipoproteins and do not circultate in the bloodstream like other fats, but are sent directly to the liver where they are immediately converted into energy-just like a carbohydrate. So when you eat coconut oil, the body uses it immediately to make rather than store it as body fat. It has been well documented in numerous dietary studies using both animals and human replacing LFCA with MFCA results in a decrease in body weight gain and a reduction in fat deposition.

Dr. Julian Whitaker, a well-known authority on nutrition and health looks at coconut oil as a diet-introduced thermogenesis (fat- burning food). In one study researchers found that coconut oil given over a six-day period can increase diet introduced thermogenesis by 50 percent. When combined with high-fiber diet, using coconut oil and coconut products can have a remarkable effect o n your weight and your health./TE