Reasons why coconut oil is GOOD for you

If coconut fat were bad for you, then we should see some very sick people in populations that eat a lot of it.

But we don’t. Populations who eat a large percentage of calories from coconuts are MUCH healthier than Western nations.

The Tokelauans ate more than 50% of calories as coconut and were the biggest consumers of saturated fat in the world. The Kitavans ate up to 17% of calories as saturated fat, mostly from coconut.

Both of these populations had no traces of cardiovascular disease despite the high saturated fat consumption and were overall in exceptional health (4, 5).

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