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<blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 856251" data-attributes="member: 12578"><p>Now I wouldn't touch coconut oil for several reasons.</p><p>An awful lot of that is produced industrially in countries that don't yet have the same sort of safeguards in place as the EU . It's refined, bleached and hydrogenated.</p><p>I also think that there is a lot of hype that has gone into suddenly promoting as a 'health food' in the last few years.</p><p>Two articles to consider</p><p>One extolling it (doesn't like the wiki article which obviously changes frequently )</p><p><a href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/coconut-oil-blackballed-by-wikipedia/" target="_blank">http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/coconut-oil-blackballed-by-wikipedia/</a></p><p>one a report commissioned by the New Zealand heart foundation ie trying to investigate what sort of fats are in coconut oil ,the evidence for it's effects on lipids and the evidence for various claims(particularly relating to heart diease)</p><p><a href="https://www.heartfoundation.org.nz/uploads/Evidence_paper_coconut_August_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.heartfoundation.org.nz/uploads/Evidence_paper_coconut_August_2014.pdf</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even if some of the claims were valid and the virgin coconut oil came from an impeccable source (ie not some unknown company advertising on Amazon) the oil will have travelled half way around the world. I prefer to eat things that can be produced reasonably locally and seasonally. I can grow olive trees in my garden (well ,I've got three tiny ones that even after 12 years are still tiny and only produce about 10 olives between them each year . They really don't like the odd night at -14 in winter)</p><p>Coconuts; not a chance of growing them. I can buy olive oil produced within a hundred miles of here. Even if my oil comes from Spain , Italy or Greece it hasn't come that far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phoenix, post: 856251, member: 12578"] Now I wouldn't touch coconut oil for several reasons. An awful lot of that is produced industrially in countries that don't yet have the same sort of safeguards in place as the EU . It's refined, bleached and hydrogenated. I also think that there is a lot of hype that has gone into suddenly promoting as a 'health food' in the last few years. Two articles to consider One extolling it (doesn't like the wiki article which obviously changes frequently ) [URL]http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/coconut-oil-blackballed-by-wikipedia/[/URL] one a report commissioned by the New Zealand heart foundation ie trying to investigate what sort of fats are in coconut oil ,the evidence for it's effects on lipids and the evidence for various claims(particularly relating to heart diease) [URL]https://www.heartfoundation.org.nz/uploads/Evidence_paper_coconut_August_2014.pdf[/URL] Even if some of the claims were valid and the virgin coconut oil came from an impeccable source (ie not some unknown company advertising on Amazon) the oil will have travelled half way around the world. I prefer to eat things that can be produced reasonably locally and seasonally. I can grow olive trees in my garden (well ,I've got three tiny ones that even after 12 years are still tiny and only produce about 10 olives between them each year . They really don't like the odd night at -14 in winter) Coconuts; not a chance of growing them. I can buy olive oil produced within a hundred miles of here. Even if my oil comes from Spain , Italy or Greece it hasn't come that far. [/QUOTE]
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