Why is saturated fat bad for your health?
Fat and oils are technically triglycerides. Triglycerides are composed of individual molecules called fatty acids. Each triglycerides molecule consists of three fatty acids.
There are three categories of fatty acids: saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated. All oils and fats consist of a mixture of these categories of fatty acids.
A high intake of saturated fat can increase the amount of cholesterol produced in the liver and therefore the amount in the blood. A high level of cholesterol in the blood is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease.
The major sources of saturated fat are cooking fats, margarine, fatty meats, full fat milk, cheese, chips, biscuits, pastries and sweets contribute to the cholesterol content of your diet and it is highly recommended to eat less fat and fatty foods.
However, the saturated fat in coconut oil is remarkably healthy!
Coconut oil had the misfortune of being labeled a dietary troublemaker because it is high in saturated fat and many people avoided using it for that reason in their diet.
Many people believed that saturated fat in coconut oil would raise their cholesterol levels. However, no legitimate research has ever demonstrated that the saturated fat in coconut oil increases blood cholesterol and there is no evidence that the consumption of coconut oil products leads to heart disease, indeed, numerous scientific studies have shown that people who traditionally consume a lot of coconut oil as a part of diet do not generally have heart disease and have normal cholesterol levels.
What most people did not know at the time was that the saturated fat in coconut oil is completely different from the saturated fat found in meats and other vegetable oils. Coconut oil is a unique fat comprised predominantly of medium chain triglycerides or fatty acids, which has a number of health benefits.
What are medium chain fatty acids in coconut oil?
What are the health benefits provided by medium chain fatty acids?
Due to their chemical structure and smaller size, medium chain fatty acids pass through cell membranes easily; they are digested with ease without using extra energy, enzymes or lipoproteins. That is why if you have a slow metabolism or digestive problems – coconut oil is very good for your health.
Medium-chain fatty acids are unique in not only the fact that they are effortlessly digested but these molecules of fat are sent directly to your liver, where they are immediately converted into energy. When you take one to three of tablespoons of TIANA Organic Virgin Coconut Oil a day as a nutritional supplement (depending on your body weight) you can immediately feel that you are full of energy, as our premium quality coconut oil can really make a difference for your health compared with other coconut oils available.
Coconut oil is a good source of energy and actually stimulates your metabolism that is why when you are cooking with coconut oil it is not stored in your body as fat.
However, if you start using coconut oil that is not working for you, please remember that not all coconut oils are the same therefore cannot provide you with the same level of health benefits.
Sportsmen, athletes and people who feel a lack of energy, low metabolism and the related health conditions should use top quality coconut oil in their daily diet and use coconut oil instead of other vegetable oils for all cooking or baking.
Extensive research has demonstrated that coconut oil can increase the activity of the thyroid by boosting your energy which consequently increases your metabolism.
The medium chain fats in coconut oil are considered very nutritious and have been used in baby formulas, and to feed the critically ill, those on tube feeding, and those with digestive problems.
Find out how many uses TIANA Organic Virgin Coconut Oil has for your diet, skin and hair benefits.
For your information, fat molecules in any vegetable oils have in their chemical structure long chain fatty acids. Such fat is difficult to digest because of the length of their molecules therefore to digest fatty foods it requires extra energy otherwise your body will start storing the fat and you will be gaining weight.
That is why a lot of weight loss diets recommend using low fat diets together with a lot of physical exercise. However, when you are on a low fat diet it is difficult for you as you always feel that you are hungry. Find our more if you would like to lose excess weight?
Coconut oil and cholesterol
What is cholesterol?
“Good” and “bad” cholesterol, both of them are lipoproteins.
“Good” cholesterol is high density lipoprotein, whereas “Bad” cholesterol is low density lipoprotein which can accumulate in the wall of your arteries that leads to arteriosclerosis and subsequently to heat diseases and stroke.
When a doctor checks your blood cholesterol levels, there are two figures that one seeks; one is amount of “good” cholesterol per litre and the second is “bad” cholesterol level. The difference between “good” and “bad” cholesterol is your actual cholesterol level.
Coconut Oil is cholesterol and trans-fat free.
The reason that coconut oil does not adversely effect cholesterol is due to the fact that the medium chain triglycerides that are contained in saturated fat of coconut oil are burned off immediately and are not converted into body fat or cholesterol therefore not affecting the blood cholesterol levels.
Because all other fat or oil molecules have a chemical structure of long chain fatty acids, the excess of fat you are consuming can be stored in body as fat and also can be deposited within the arteries in lipid forms such as cholesterol.
Coconut oil and heart disease
Due to the fact that coconut oil has this unique group of saturated fats which provide incredible health benefits, coconut oil is considered by nutritionists to be among the healthiest of all dietary oils. Ironically, one of the benefits of coconut oil is that it helps protect against heart disease and stroke.
This fact is clearly evident in populations around the world who rely on coconut oil products and eat it everyday of their lives. For thousands of years people in South-East Asia have been consuming coconuts and coconut oil demonstrate a remarkable level of good health. In the countries where there is a high consumption of coconut oil and coconut oil products heart disease is relatively rare. In fact, those people who eat the most coconut have the lowest heart disease rates in the world.
Even though people in the coconut growing regions of the world consume coconut oil everyday of their lives, heart disease was completely unknown to them until just a few decades ago. Heart disease did not show up until after they began replacing traditional coconut oil products with western foods.
There are certain foods that can reduce your “bad” cholesterol levels without using drugs such as TIANA Organic Coconut Flour, which is rich in dietary fibre and important nutrients.
Fibre passes straight through us and often absorbs waste products and water along the way. Soluble fibre can also slow down the absorption of glucose in the intestine – which is important for keeping obesity at bay.
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