Coconut oil enthusiasts claim that it lowers body weight, body fat percentage, blood sugar and cellular inflammation. Several meta-study analyses published in the journal Circulation this year found no evidence that consuming coconut oil did any of those things. What is did do is result in "significantly higher LDL-cholesterol than nontropical vegetable oils".
Ninety percent (90%) of the fat in coconut oil is saturated (vs about 40% in a lean beef tenderloin). In the 14 randomized controlled trials of coconut oil vs nontropical vegetable oils (canola, olive, soybean) coconut oil raised LDL (bad) cholesterol by about 11 points.
"This should inform choices about coconut oil consumption," the authors dryly concluded.
We may live in a post-fact world where opinion has the weight of science. But results and outcomes don't give a crap about opinion.
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