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Amazing Coconut Oil Benefits

By Ben Mester

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Published: 24Jul2011
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The more I study oils, the more I'm amazed at all the different coconut oil benefits. There are so many benefits to coconut oil and many of them go unnoticed because of their subtlety. I'll give you an example. Did you know that coconut oil is solid at room temperature? It melts in your hand because it's a liquid at body temperature, but it's a solid at room temperature. How is this an advantage? Most oils are fragile. When oils are cold pressed, exposure to oxygen and sunlight starts to break them down. Most oils don't have a very long shelf life. In an attempt to keep them fresh for longer, oil makers "refine" the oil, taking it through a process of sometimes up to 20 steps that uses chemicals and methods to help preserve the oil. Many cold pressed oils that you find in the store have been so heavily processed that all the nutritional value has been lost. But not coconut oil. Since coconut oil is a solid at room temperature, it stays protected and preserved longer.

That's just one of the benefits to coconut oil that goes widely unrecognized. Unrefined coconut oil is cheap and easy to find. It's almost impossible to find other cold pressed oils that are unrefined in your local health food store. But coconut oil has a huge number of other benefits as well. Many experts agree that because of its chemical makeup that coconut oil is the best oil for cooking. Coconut oil, though very fatty, resists heat damage especially well, much more than many other oils. A lot of vegetable oils have low smoke points and get damaged from excess heat and can actually produce toxic compounds because of it. Coconut oil resists heat damage and is perfect for cooking.

But what about the high fat content? Surely that's a drawback and not a benefit. According to the most recent studies, the fats in coconut oil actually help the body to raise levels of healthy cholesterol and fight against levels of bad cholesterol. Not only that, but studies have found that if a person using coconut oil switches to a lower fat vegetable oil, they're more susceptible to forming higher levels of bad cholesterol. Not all fats are bad, nor is all cholesterol. Fats that are healthy and essential can help give the body what it needs and can help to control cholesterol and keep levels of bad cholesterol at bay. Did you know that good cholesterol actually regulates bad cholesterol and helps remove it from the blood? So just having a higher level of cholesterol isn't always bad. We don't have time to go into the many other coconut oil benefits that exist. Just know that coconut oil was once widely used in American society and only fell out of favor when vegetable oils began to rise up and started tarnishing coconut oil as fatty and dangerous. Coconut oil is definitely fatty, but it contains the kinds of fats that the body loves and needs for normal daily function.

There are many more coconut oil benefits. We've just gone through a few. Coconut oil skin benefits are especially amazing.

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