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Cooking With Coconut Oil
Cooking With Coconut Oil
Cooking With Coconut Oil
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Tempt your taste buds with these healthy coconut oil recipes. Coconuts are a way of life for millions of people around the world today in tropical climates. Known as the "tree of life," the wonderful fruit of the coconut palm is rich in specific fats that have incredible health benefits. Traditional tropical populations that consume a lot of coconut oil are seldom overweight, and traditionally have been free from the modern diseases that afflict most western cultures.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherLulu.com
Release dateApr 7, 2011
ISBN9781257459919
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    Cooking With Coconut Oil - Cary Price

    No-Bakes

    Why cook with Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

    * Promoting Weight loss

    * Promoting a healthy cardiovascular system

    * Supporting a healthy metabolism

    * Providing you with an immediate energy source

    * Helping to keep your skin healthy and youthful looking

    * Supporting the proper functioning of your thyroid gland

    Coconut Oil aids in weight loss.

    MCFA = Medium Chain Fatty Acid which is a readily available source of energy not stored by the body as fat.

    LCFA= Long Chain Fatty Acid found in omega 6 plant oils. Such as canola, safflower, soy oil.

    If you live in the United States, you have a 55% chance of being overweight.

    And, by now, I'm sure you're aware that obesity affects your quality of life and is linked to many health concerns.

    One of the best benefits of coconut oil lies in its ability to help stimulate your metabolism.

    Back in the 1940s, farmers found out about this effect by accident when they tried using inexpensive coconut oil to fatten their livestock.

    It didn't work!

    Instead, coconut oil made the animals lean, active and hungry.

    Now, I'm certainly not comparing you to a farm animal...

    However, many animal and human research studies have demonstrated that replacing LCFAs with MCFAs results in both decreased body weight and reduced fat deposition.

    So, by changing the fats in your diet from the unsaturated long-chain fatty acids found in vegetable or seed oils to the MCFAs in coconut oil, along with following an exercise plan, you may find yourself gradually losing those unnecessary pounds.

    Coconut oil has often been compared to carbohydrates in its ability to be burned for energy. However, since insulin is not involved in the process of digesting the MCFAs

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