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?