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Tag Archives: Coconut Oil
Fat For Health
Since the fat free fad diets of the 1990’s everyone has been giving fat a bad rap. The desirable verses the undesirable fat seems to be a very confusing concept for many of us to understand.
Fat is fat right, don’t we need to avoid it all? The truth is we all need fat as part of a healthy diet, the trick is to chose the right fat. Eating good quality fat in the form of olive oil, raw nuts, seeds and avocados is not necessarily going to make you fat, and on the other hand, eating too much ‘fat free’ food could easily make you fat.
Coconut Oil
Recently I was listening to a lecture by an Australian naturopath about the benefits of coconut oil which I found most interesting. Like most people, I was always lead to believe that coconut oil is a bad fat because it is saturated and because of this everyone was grouping it in with the fatty fats, like lard and butter.
Coconut oil has been the staple fat for thousands of years in many diets around the world and is used in many products from cosmetics to cooking to oil lamps so is it all bad?
