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    Nourishing Planet™ Virgin Coconut Oil is made by mechanically pressing the chopped and warm air dried coconut meat straight after the coconuts are opened and dried, thus avoiding processing which destroys or alters the natural components.
 It is NOT refined, bleached nor deodorized (RBD) nor hydrogenated. This pure virgin oil retains the healthy properties of coconuts including the medium chain fatty acids and averages 50% of the highly beneficial lauric acid.

Many people have reported that coconut oil can help you to: Lose weight more easily and keep that weight from coming back Increase your energy Rev up your metabolism Promote healthy thyroid function   G. W. Crile and his wife found that the metabolic rate of people in Yucatan, where coconut is a staple food, averaged 25% higher than that of people in the United States.

Virgin Coconut Oil and Weight Loss

Many people have reported that consuming Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) helps them to lose weight. They often experience increased energy levels and fewer cravings for carbohydrates and sweets. It’s easier for many people to eat less when consuming 2 - 4 Tablespoons of coconut oil per day, because the fats provide a feeling of satiety or fullness after eating that is not generally experienced when eating a low-fat meal.

Virgin coconut oil is rich in the medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs), like lauric acid, that have been shown to boost the metabolism. In fact, around 50% of the fatty acids in this coconut oil are lauric acid. It appears that the amount of energy used to metabolize these MCFAs is greater than the energy they provide, and lauric acid is the most rapidly metabolized fatty acid, scientist have found. Coconut oil has a “thermogenic” effect, meaning it raises your body temperature. This in turn boosts energy levels and metabolism. This may be why it seems to be especially helpful with those who have sluggish thyroid problems*, that often don't show up on blood tests for thyroid function.

Research alludes to the fact that a major cause of weight problems in America today may be an under-active thyroid gland, especially among women. That’s because the thyroid gland controls body temperature and metabolism, and when the thyroid is sluggish, body temperature and metabolism tend to slow down. Some other symptoms of low, or hypothyroid, are fatigue, cold hands and feet, depression, anxiety, constipation, easy bruising, insomnia, dry skin, unhealthy and brittle nails, allergies and asthma, migraines, acne, hair loss and low sex drive.

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Coconut Oil and Saturated Fats in the Diet

According to the American Heart Association, trends show us that while the number of people dying from heart disease has decreased, the number of people getting heart disease is actually going up.  This means that we are getting better at managing heart problems like heart attacks and strokes with acute care and drugs, but we are not preventing them.  At the same time, you will find most media articles still reporting that we need to lower our fat in our diets, especially the saturated fats, like those that come from red meats and coconut oil.  Is this true?

Well, we will let you do some of your own research (try for starters), but we think this is not true.  Back around the turn of the last century, Americans ate more saturated fat in the form of coconut and palm oils, butter, bacon, lard, red meat and more, but their heart disease rates were much lower than they are now*.  In France, too, as recently as 1991, the French still ate lots of saturated fats in the form of butter, cream, foie gras and more, but they had heart disease rates ½ that of Americans.  In fact, in the Gasgony region of France where they eat more saturated fat than any other people studied in the developed world, their heart disease rates are ½ that of the French people as a whole or ¼ of that of the Americans!!  Also people in the tropics have traditionally used lots of coconut products including coconut oil for thousands of years without having heart disease problems until they started eating processed foods like sugars and new fangled oils like vegetable oils.

There are many studies out today that show that the level of trans fatty acids and also refined sugars that you consume is a far more important indicator of heart disease levels than the amount of saturated fats you consume.  In fact, the original studies implicating saturated fat with causing heart disease were done with hydrogenated oils that contained high levels of trans fatty acids.  Hmm…

So back to coconut oil, we believe that coconut oil has many benefits, including its proven ability to lower viral and bacterial infections, and that those who say its not good simply because it’s high in saturated fats, have not carefully studied all the facts.  In addition, that many researchers are now implicating chronic infection more and more in many chronic diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.

*In fact, in 2005, around 50% of deaths in America were from heart disease and cancer, but in 1900, heart disease and cancer accounted for only 13 percent of the deaths. The rate of death from heart disease has nearly doubled and the rate for cancer has nearly tripled from 1900 to 2005.

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