Pumpkin season is here and there is no shortage of delicious recipes! All of these recipes use coconut in some fashion, whether it be coconut oil, shredded coconut, coconut cream concentrate, coconut milk, or coconut flour. Many of these recipes are free of allergens like gluten and dairy.
I am 74 years old and I have Parkinson's, diagnosed 3 1/2 years ago. This past April, I began taking coconut oil, worked up to 8T daily (4 with breakfast, 2 at lunch, 2 at dinner). I saw significant improvements in a couple of days. My wife and friends are astonished at my apparent recovery. It is strikingly noticeable.
Coconut oil has many healthy uses--it can moisturize your skin and hair, all while sprucing up a healthy diet. That's why we sat down with Celebrity Chef Giada De Laurentiis to find out how she incorporates coconut oil into her everyday regimen and in her recipes. Watch the video to get her tips and find out how coconut oil can make your life a little more lovely too.
Keeping your cast iron pans and wooden cutting boards in tip-top shape is easy with the help of a little coconut oil! Learn how to properly season your cast iron pans and condition your wooden cutting boards using coconut oil, ensuring that these valuable kitchen tools are able to stand the test of time.
A "new" product has been appearing on store shelves recently and being marketed as "Liquid Coconut Oil" for cooking and baking. The product stays liquid, even in your refrigerator. Is this real coconut oil? No. So what is this product, and why does it stay liquid at lower temperatures? Liquid coconut oil has been traditionally called "fractionated coconut oil" because it has been manufactured to remove most of the saturated fatty acids, including lauric acid, the most famous and most valuable fatty acid in coconut oil. Outside of coconut oil, lauric acid is only found in abundance in human breast milk. So what do you have when you take lauric acid out of real coconut oil? You have an ordinary oil that is missing the most unique feature coconut oil is known for, lauric acid. Lauric acid is 50% of real coconut oil, and 0% of liquid coconut oil. Liquid coconut oil is some combination of capric and caprylic acid, medium chain fatty acids found in abundance in other places in nature, such as goat's milk, which is where it got its name from, from oleic acid which is in abundance in olive oil, and from linoleic acid which is found in many vegetable oils, such as soy and corn. These fatty acids are not as heat stable, and therefore it may be dangerous to cook with "liquid coconut oil." So should we really be calling a manufactured liquid oil byproduct with no lauric acid "coconut oil?"
My mother was going to start on Aricept. My dad said she needs to be on the drug. I told him "no," and that both of them should start on 2 tablespoons a day of coconut oil. In 5 days her memory was getting better and she could keep a conversation, finishing sentences. She was feeling better, and my sister talked to her for 40 minutes, while she was not repeating herself and answered questions. My mother was very alert, and my sister said she hasn't had a conversation with mom like that in months.
A new study reveals that Virgin Coconut Oil consumption leads to lower blood pressure. This study examined the effects of lipid peroxidation in heating liquid unsaturated oils, which leads to hypertension. Virgin Coconut Oil consumption led to a lowering of blood pressure. This study confirms what many other studies also show, that the USDA dietary guidelines' advice on fats and oils has been completely wrong for many years now. Liquid polyunsaturated oils such as soy and corn oils are promoted as "heart healthy" when in fact they lead to heart disease when used in cooking. Saturated fats, on the other hand, have been demonized as causing high cholesterol and heart disease, when in fact the opposite is true.
A study just published in Food and Function, of the Royal Society of Chemistry, shows once again that the highest amounts of antioxidants in coconut oil are found in virgin coconut oils produced by the wet-milling process. The study was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Kerala in India. The study compared a traditionally made virgin coconut oil with refined coconut oil, olive oil, and sunflower oil for effects on antioxidant status. The results revealed that virgin coconut oil improved the antioxidant status compared to other three oil-fed groups. They observed increased activities of catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase in the liver, heart, and kidneys. Virgin coconut oil also prevented oxidative stress, indicated by the decreased formation of lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation. This is perhaps the most exhaustive study to date examining the anti-oxidant activities of traditional, wet-milled virgin coconut oils.
Patients with colorectal cancer are usually treated with chemotherapy, which reduces the number of blood cells, especially white blood cells, and consequently increases the risk of infections. Some research studies have reported that aromatherapy massage affects the immune system and improves immune function by, for example, increasing the numbers of natural killer cells and peripheral blood lymphocytes. The objectives of this study were to determine whether the use of aromatherapy with light Thai massage in patients with colorectal cancer, who have received chemotherapy, can result in improvement of the cellular immunity and reduce the severity of the common symptoms of side effects. It was found that aromatherapy with light Thai massage can be beneficial for the immune systems of cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy by increasing the number of lymphocytes and can help to reduce the severity of common symptoms.
I must post about my amazing experience with Virgin Coconut Oil. I am 35 years old and severely hypothyroid. I was on thyroxine at very high does for 5 years before I started looking for an alternative. My doctor said my levels were alright, however I was still extremely lethargic and suffered from “brain fog”. I started out taking 2 tablespoons a day and instantly felt the effects. It was so energizing that I couldn't take it before bed or I wouldn't sleep.
Here is yet another study showing the superiority of coconut oil in healing skin problems. This confirms what other studies have found, and what thousands of people have testified to, regarding the ability of coconut oil to heal skin problems when drugs fail.
After a few weeks of gradually increasing her coconut oil intake and working up to 3 TBS daily, Grandma had improved even beyond where she was when she first came to live with Mom. Her memory was improving and her confusion was gone. She was pleasant and happy to be with us: she was a fully functioning 86 year old! Even some of her aches and pains were better! That was two years ago and now, at the age of 88, Grandma is still taking the coconut oil and has not lost one bit of her alertness, memory, or character! Coconut oil gave my Grandma back to us!
Coconut Oil has many wonderful health benefits, too many in fact to include in our online video, however we would like to name a few and talk about the top 3 properties we discuss in this video. We will also share with you a couple of ways to use it in your daily life to get its benefits.
The University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute has announced that they will conduct an 8-month pilot study investigating coconut oil for individuals with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. Coconut oil has made dramatic improvement in many people with Alzheimer's, and Health Impact News has published many of these testimonies.
Most commercial sunscreens contain a wide variety of toxic ingredients. Make your own sunscreen at home using safe oils, including coconut oil.
In this video report Steve in Sydney describes how coconut oil reversed dementia in his 85 year old father in only 35 days.
The lipid theory of heart disease linking saturated fat to coronary heart disease continues to crumble. Of course there never was any real solid science linking traditional saturated fats and cholesterol to heart disease, but that didn't stop the pharmaceutical companies from making billions of dollars from the sale of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Before the patent expired, Lipitor was the best selling drug of all time, nearly equaling the sales of all other drugs combined. An excellent study analyzing the existing medical literature regarding dietary fats and heart disease was just published in Advances in Nutrition by Glen D. Lawrence, PhD, from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY - Dietary Fats and Health: Dietary Recommendations in the Context of Scientific Evidence. This analysis is significant because it not only looks at the differences of dietary oils classified as saturated fatty acids (SFA), monounsaturated fatty acids (MFA) or polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), but also the ratios of Omega 3 (ω3) to Omega 6 (ω6) fatty acids contained within PUFAs. Older research had suggested that PUFAs had a lower risk of heart disease. But the science actually points to only Omega 3 fatty acids, such as those found in fish oils, as being heart healthy, and not Omega 6 fatty acids, such as those found in corn and soybean oil, which comprise more than 90% of the dietary oil market in the U.S. The study also correctly vindicates the negative bias against saturated fat found in coconut oil and dairy products: "Several recent analyses indicate that SFAs, particularly in dairy products and coconut oil, can improve health."
Both raw honey and coconut oil are nourishing for the skin and have been used for skin care for hundreds of years. Learn how to make a simple raw honey coconut oil face mask at home that will leave your skin feeling soft and hydrated.
You should never put on your body anything you can not, or would not eat. After many years of vast misrepresentation, coconut oil has gained wider acceptance not simply as a wholesome food, but as a medicinal agent capable of both nourishing and healing the body in ways that xenobiotic chemicals by their very nature can not.
“I lost my dad to Alzheimer’s five years ago and I thought I would never get him back,” said Rashi. “But somehow I have, and it’s the most amazing thing."
