Is shredded coconut bad for cholesterol?
Saturday, August 21st, 2010I’m very confused. We’re supposed to be lowering our daughter’s cholesterol but the nutritionist said coconut can be included in her diet. Yet it’s very high in saturated fat. Is it good or bad for cholesterol?
You need to evaluate your daughter’s cholesterol numbers from people that know what they are talking about, not a doctor or nutritionist that is using typical medical numbers.
Saturated fat from the Diet does NOT contribute to high cholesterol, if the saturated fat is a natural product. Your daughter’s total cholesterol numbers should be in the range of 240 to 270. Did the cholesterol test you are using to base the numbers on include a break down of the LDL numbers into the pattern A and pattern B? If not, you need to get those numbers before jumping to conclusions the cholesterol numbers are good or bad.
Coconut is one of the best foods you can eat. It is 92% saturated fats. Please know that ALL FATS IN NATURE are made up of the three categories of fat: saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids along with a glycerol molecule. Coconut has about 50% lauric acid in it that nourishes the thyroid gland. It has about 8% caprylic acid and 7% capric acid. These fatty acids contribute to anti-bacterial, anti-vital, and anti-fungal qualities.
Only about 15% of the cholesterol in your body comes from the diet. The rest is made by your liver. ALL of your steroid hormones are made from cholesterol. Cholesterol is NOT a FAT ! ! ! It is a form of an alcohol with a fatty acid coupling capability that transports fatty acids through the body.
Cholesterol is the basis for ALL those steroid hormones and bile.
Avoiding saturated fat is a stupid idea that drug companies have promoted to increase sales of their stupid statin drugs that are damaging people everywhere. Eating coconut oil is not going to have an effect on the cholesterol because your liver makes that determination based on infections in the body. If you reduce cholesterol in your diet, your liver just makes more to compensate.
The oils to avoid are: Soybean, Canola, Cottonseed, Corn oils! ! ! The proper amount of oils to eat are: 60% monounsaturated (olive oil); 30% saturated fats from real butter made from cows that eat grass and is unpasteurized and coconut oils; 10% polyunsaturated fats from nuts and seeds - like flax seeds, etc., not bottled oil.
good luck to you
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