Reply #51: I'm pretty sure.. [View All]

.... that coconut oil is included in these folks "avoid" list becuase of the saturated fat levels.

How many times have doctors changed their minds about this stuff? 30 years ago, fats were the root of all evil. In the fullness of time, that has been refined to "trans fats" or other offenders. Used to, if you ate eggs, you were sure to have crazy cholesterol levels. We now know that genetics is the largest determiner of serum cholesterol, not diet - I eat 4 eggs a day, my numbers are fine.

I take all of this stuff with a huge grain of salt (another food where they all had it wrong). The fact is, there ARE foods that have components that can help with this or that problem. The fact that a food might be good in some ways and bad in others is not much of a stretch.

The amount of oil we are talking about here I doubt is medically significant - I wouldn't eat a pound of french fries fried in coconut oil however.