Coconut Diet: More Diet Confusion?

What is with the negative sentiments with regard to the diet incorporating coconut oil? -It's not like the diet is a fad, telling people to eat merely coconut oil! It is about "incorporating" a proven metabolic boosting oil into one's HEALTHY eating regimen, rather than spreading low-fat/trans fatty/neither-tasting margarine on their bread (a.k.a. a low-fat diet).
As far as I'm concerned, there is no place for slanted editorials on the web. Whomever wrote the comments above is obviously very confused over the place that fats have in one's diet.

The Coconut Diet is not just about coconut oil; it's about a healthy, whole foods, low-carb diet that not only is slimming, but a great diet to follow for life. The Coconut Diet recommends coconut oil because it is a slimming oil that is also heart healthy. It burns up quickly in the body, a lot like kindling on a fire. This helps boost metabolism and that helps us lose weight. The body likes to burn medium chain fatty acids (MCTs), which dominate coconut oil. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that when we opt for oils rich in MCTs over oils donminated by long chain triglycerides (LCTs) such as corn, soy, canola, safflower, and sunflower,we burn three times more calories for six hours after a meal.

Insightful comments. Thanks for your response Cherie. My points were not deriding virgin coconut oil as a useful nutrient. It's the market-driven claims that require scrutiny. Consumers are very confused:
Hamptons Diet - Low carb - with Macadamia Nut oil proven to be the 'magic' ingredient.
Rosedale Diet - Low carb - with unsaturated fats only.
Coconut Diet - Low carb - coconut oil as the central theme.

I don't doubt that all 3 of these have merit - but the claims that are made are sometimes a little bit exuberant.

MCTs were popular in the early 90s as a supplement but tended to cause stomach cramps. However Coconut oil is much gentler on the digestive system. Animal-based saturated fats have given palm oils a bad rap.

The reality is, nutrition is a highly individual issue.

I'm not disagreeing with anything y'all said; I just have two questions...does it speed up your metabolism, and is it dangerous to your health at all? Because if I start it, I'm not going to change my diet/exercise plan...I just think it'd be good to start b/c I work out a lot.

I've read so many good things about virgin coconut oil in the last year or so that it is the only oil I use for cooking. I'll use extra virgin olive oil (with coconut oil) in salad dressings. I read about The Coconut Diet by Cherie Calbom on the mercola.com website. I bought the book, followed the cleansing program along with the low-carb and coconut oil and lost 5 pounds in 5 days. I had been exercising and eating protein and "healthy" carbs, with occasional dessert slips, and had only lost 6 pounds in 3 months. I'd gone on vacation, eaten desserts, not exercised, and gained 3 of those back. It was great to lose those 3 plus an extra couple. I've read a lot of nutritional information in the last few years, and her info seems very sound. I'm sticking with the program! Thanks, Cherie, for your book. I told the woman at the local health food store about it. She's read it and is following the program as well. The coconut oil really seems to kill the carbohydrate cravings. I may "cave" to desserts occasionally, such as at parties, but I don't actually crave them anymore.

I've been on the Eat Fat Lose Weight version (Mary Enig) and have enjoyed the meals plus lost 10lbs in 2 weeks. The coconut oil has given me more energy and am less hungry than I was during my bout with six week bodymakeover (lost 45lbs). I have used Coconut Oil for years as it is the cheapest oil in my area and a vegetarian nutritionist had recommended me to use it in every meal. The oil has also helped me lower my blood glucose from 140 to 70. The coconut juice, milk and oil will continue to be in my diet unless new research proving otherwise is shown.

I have just started The Coconut Diet and so far so good...it seems like A LOT of food though...more than I'm used to eating. I am just concerned about what will happen when I stop the diet. The recipies are good and relitively easy, however I can just see myself giving up due to lack of time and extra grocery shopping needed.
Will it be extrememly detrimental to my progress if I all of a sudden stop and go back to my old ways??

I have been 3 days on the coconut diet and I love it. Everything is so tasty. But looking ahead I see I will be consuming at least 14 eggs a week if I keep following the menu plans. I am very worried about the cholesterol overload. Please advise me before I abandon this really delicious diet. I love coconut and have since a child

I didn't know there was a coconut oil diet. I just read about its attributes and started having some around the time I eat and cooking things in it.
It's been about a month. No weight loss. I also bathe in it and I like what it does to my skin.
When I take 3 tablespoons a day I get terrible stomach aches at night.
So am I doing it wrong or maybe allergic to coconuts?

I have used coconut oil in massage for skin problems and have also heard of people using coconut oil for their weight loss, it is suppose to be a good fat, the body takes the good fat and releases the bad. I have heard of people cooking with it, putting it in their oat meal, on bread instead of butter, some take the capsule form. It has got to be better than some of these oils that we are using. I heard that coconut oil should not be taken on an empty stomach, because it is an oil, it will make you sick, if your stomach is empty, take it with a meal.
I have heard it takes a few months to start seeing any weight loss.
Dee (Into all natural health)

coconut oil will make u see results.. assuming u eat right along with it. lots of fish salads, cheese, coconut milk, fresh oranic fruit, whole wheat bread( if u eat themat all) and occationally the slurge for sugar ( although i dont recoomend sugar anyways ... at least refined. ). Sugar ( each table spoon) weakens ur immune system for every tablespoon of sugar u eat. I suggest a high protein, all organiz , no sugar and def lots of coconut oil and olive oil diet. THIS IS A MIRACLE !!!

I'm a person who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome. That has made life very difficult and unenjoyable. A year or so ago, I decided to give somersizing a try by Suzanne Somers to lose some weight. Its a high fat/ lower carb diet (although you are still allowed some whole grains and fruit). I didn't know about coconut oil at the time. I ate at least 100-120 grams of a fat a day, maybe even more, from animal fat and mostly all dairy with a little olive oil. I ate full fat cheeses, heavy creams, full fat sour cream, something at every meal. It was a lot of dairy fat. I lost about 18 pounds, went in to have my blood work done, and was surprised at my results. My LDL/HDL levels improved dramatically! Also, my risk for heart diesease dropped even more dramatically! I still suffered from being tired all the time though, so a few weeks ago, my Dr told me about coconut oil and how to incorperate it into my diet to see if it will help. It has! I did have to replace most of my dairy with the coconut oil and milk so I wasn't adding more fat to my diet, but I can already feel the difference. I have added about 3 tbsp a day and use the coconut milk in place of cream for all my recipes, but I still enjoy all the same foods I did before. I understand we all recat to foods in our own unique way, and what will be good for one person may not be good for the next, but for me, saturated fats, especailly the coconut oil, have helped me a lot to feel good, and internally, my cholesterol levels and heart disease risk prove that I'm eating right for my body. I just had to give my 2 cents worth. Thank you!

Coconut fat is king. I am a microbiologist by training and have always followed and been a fan of diet and nutrition books/news. Besides cooking with, you can eat coconut cream - it is the oil pluus the meat blended together to be used as a spread or just a spoonfull when craving sweets. It had fiber too. You can buy it from mercola.com and at Whole Foods.
I eat a lot of fat - coconut, olive oil, avocado and I am very trim. I eat carbs, but only in the form of beans and lentils and fruits and veggies (sometimes sweet potatoes). I am able to eat without issues at most restaurants and I am very happy with my diet.
The medical field is ignorant. Just like grass fed beef fat is TOTALLY different from grain fed beef fat. Farmed salmon fat is different from wild salmon. I have seen doctors who tell me I am crazy - and they are over weight, slouched and balding. Whatever, I will stick to what works for me!!!!

I'm new to this whole Coconut oil ordeal. I just want to hear from someone who has incorparted this oil into their daily diets, did it work? And also how do I use it?
Please email me at tad61007@yahoo.com

Nutrition and health are two topics that should never be taken lightly. Unfortunately I find many "Diet" books to only have on thing in mind...."money". No doubt there are some brilliant books out there and I'm a great fan of reading them, but too many people believe every word they read without questioning every fact. I'm a dietician and believe strongly that not one single food will be our magic cure. As humans we need to change our lifestyles. We need to incorporate a variety of foods including complex carbs, protein and fat. Variety is the key here as there is not one single food that can give us all the nutrients we need. We also need to relook at the way we spend our days. Cholesterol is not only raised by the food we eat, but also stress and genetic influences. It's up to each and every individual to scrutinize each and everything they are told. As dieticians we are always trying to do our best in ensuring people get the correct information. The unfortunate thing is that people want a miracle cure and they want to lose weight fast. Rome wasn't build in a day, and neither is health. Following a well balanced eating plan and incorporating it with exercise and reduced stress (to name a few) you will get results. The results aren't nearly as quick as promised by "fad diets", but at least you won't run the risk of damaging your health permantely. Some food for thought: I recently found statistics on America and Obesity (please note I'm from South Africa and we are following in their steps with regards to health): Considering with all the various diets available to the public, 70% of Americans said they believe they eat healthy and 70% are overweight. Don't you think we maybe need to relook at what's been advocated in the media? Maybe these miracle cures are our poison? And with this I'm not under any circumstances trying to discredit any food product. Take care.

This last post didn't really address coconut oil directly. It annoyed me, somewhat, that she says she isn't putting down any particular food, but the fact that she put it into a coconut oil blog suggests otherwise. It annoys me in much the same way that some doctors annoy me when I mention an alternative treatment. They don't KNOW, so they just say "BE CAREFUL" at best, or at worst, they argue, use a condescending tone of voice or even become passive aggressive. (Actually, the BEST doc has either heard of it and will share a thought-out opinion, or has not heard of it and says "tell me more." That's the sort of doctor I recommend.)

While I agree that variety is important, it is also true that our food supply is not what it used to be, and you cannot simply take "variety" as a mandate that will ensure health. Our food supply is tainted with all sorts of unwholesome things. An egg isn't an egg anymore, milk isn't just milk, nor is a fish just a fish, nor is a steak a steak,nor a saturated oil just a saturated oil.

We know now that an egg from a truly free-range hen is much more wholesome than that of a caged hen fed who-knows-what. We know that prisoners kept alive on hard-boiled eggs alone have come out of their confinement healthier than they went in, and one of the measures of "healthy" includes a better cholesterol profile.

We know that pasteurized milk doesn't process easily in the body, but that raw milk has many benefits. The short period in our history in which cows were kept in deplorable conditions led to the pasteurization laws, but there are better ways to assure clean milk than that, ways that preserve milk's natural goodness, instead of creating a food that must be eaten with care by most and avoided by many.

We know that farm-raised fish do not have the same favorable oil content as their wild counterparts, and are routinely treated with antibiotics of some sort due to fish-farm conditions. We know that fish from northern waters are not as contaminated with heavy metals and other toxins as their fellows in, say, the Gulf of Mexico.

We now know that beef raised exclusively on grass, without even a tiny bit of grain passing their lips at the slaughter house, will have CLA profiles akin to salmon, and without the risk of mercury poisoning. Hence, the RIGHT kind of red meat becomes "heart healthy." Grain fed beef is high far too high in omega 6's to be heart-healthy.

We know that the studies showing that the saturated fat in coconuts is bad was actually an experiment conducted with HYDROGENATED, DAMAGED coconut oil, and we know now that proper research studies have shown that healthy coconut oil lowers the viral load in people with diseases like Epstein Barr virus and in people who are HIV positive.

We know that the soy industry lobbied heavily against coconut oil in order to expand their own customer base, and that they succeeded. We now know that soybean products (most commonly used as "vegetable oils") tend to throw the body out of balance, speeding puberty in girls, and slowing it down in boys, and have a surfeit of omega-6's. We know that an excess of omega 6's creates chronic disease, despite all the years we heard the battle cry proclaiming the benefits of polyunsaturated oils. We know now that the polyunsaturated oils we buy at the store are unstable unless they are processed, and that they are typically contaminated with deodorants to mask the rancid odor of an oxidized oil chock full of free radicals.

Why is it, that even though the information is available, most people don't know the facts above? HMMM.

If we have found an oil that is stable, burns well in the body and resists being stored as fat, supports the thyroid (which has been suppressed by Soy and other bad boys in the diet), kills viruses and candida without killing our tissues, keeps our energy high and our blood sugar in better balance, lowers our cholesterol, and if we know that people who have had to subsist primarily on coconut oil are very healthy, and if we know to use it in a healthy, untampered-with form, - well, why the seemingly cautionary note on switching from a recently engineered food to a food that has been helping people thrive for centuries?

I believe that we will continue to hear professionals issue words of care and caution about "new" diet trends, because they haven't been taught the old research that ought to have every one of them up in arms AGAINST a lot of the things they have been taught. Why is it so hard for them to change? Fist off, it is too embarrassing to admit mistakes. Second, the financial interests - both food and pharmaceutical - have absolutely NO interest in having people change their eating habits until they themselves are positioned for profit from these changes. (By the way, there has been a massive buyout of organic food labels on the part of the giant food companies. MASSIVE. That's one reason why I can get all sorts of organic goods at our local H.E.B. Grocery store.)

As for the encouragement to read critically - I agree. It annoyed me so much that I couldn't pick up a single diet book over the past 20 years and NOT hear something about how "evolution" affected our dietary needs. (Macroevolution has been abandoned by most serious scientists, and even Darwin would have tossed it out by now, if we believe what he wrote. It is mainly educators with a moral agenda that cling to it now, along with the kiddo's of all ages that they've brainwashed.) And all those books mouthed the same old "eat low fat,use margerine, and avoid butter and coconut oil" nonsense that Dr. Johanna Budwig showed to be dangerous back in the 1930's. I can date my massive weight gain from the day I implemented the diet I was taught -and believed in- way backin nursing school in the late 80's: the infamous food pyramid with pasta and grains as a regular feature. My nutrition instructor had an intractable case of hyperlipidemia and couldn't get it down, no matter how little fat she ate. HMMMMM. It is shocking how little research was done before that diet was given the seal of approval. Now the buzz word is "genetics." It is everywhere, and no one using really knows what they mean except in the fuzziest way. It seems to excuse us from making lifestyle changes by insisting that our problems have nothing to do with the food we put into our mouths.

I say this: look at the research. Look at Weston Price's anthropological and dietary studies all around the world. Look at Pottenger's study of cats and diet. Read Mary Enig and Sally Fallon and Bruce Fife, among others. Look at real clinical trials that actually use healthy foods and exclude unhealthy ones. They are hard to find, because there isn't much financing for them. No money in it. But whenever you do see a piece of research, don't just look at someone else's conclusions. Look at the research yourself. Look at how it was done, look at who paid for it and what they might get out of it financially. Don't discount research based on that, but let that be an indicator of possible bias. See whether all the important bases were covered, and whether it makes sense to draw any conclusions and act on them. Study. Learn. And make your own decision, and test it out on yourself when you feel confident about it.

And don't overlook what happens to real, live people. I've known cancer patients who changed their diet and had their cancer go away: in their senior years, they have both remained cancer free for several years and are not only doing great, they LOOK great. I've seen a woman whose doctor told her she had both Type 1 AND Type 2 diabetes change her diet for a week, and after just 4 days she found that her blood sugar was so normalized, she was almost entirely off insulin. (she carefully monitored her blood sugar several times a day). I've seen shingles go away and energy restored in an elderly woman, and seen her incredible joy at the changes caused by her diet changes. I've known people who have trouble walking become agile and flexible. I know a woman whose doctor told her she needed a hysterectomy to solve her excessive bleeding problem - she got a second opinion from an M.D. that was knowledgeable in alternatives (and who happens to be my doctor as well.) After a vitamin K shot and some alfalfa tablets and a short-term diet adjustment, her problem resolved completely. At the time I met her, she hadn't had a recurrence in at least a year. I've known people with severe, chronic bowel issues go to NORMAL and stay who are still fine after a decade. When you see these kinds of things happen, pay attention and learn.

And please Act. Don't just change your own diet. Help others to do the same. You can help make it possible without meddling, even! Ask your local store to carry better foods: local foods, organic foods. Ask your favorite manufacturers of food to change their practices-to take out all the MSG (good luck on that one), or to stop using artificial sweeteners, to replace vegetable oils with olive oil or coconut oil, or to use carrot instead of sugar to sweeten the pasta sauce...whatever it is that makes sense. Seek out vendors of quality food products through the internet. Tell your elected officials you want more stringent guidelines for "organic" foods, especially since they lowered the standards not too long ago. The only way to improve our food supply is to take action. I let my local grocery store know that I probably wouldn't buy my produce there any longer, and that I ordered my meat, chicken, grains, etc, from coops and internet sites, and if they wanted my business, they needed to change what they offered. They said they would pass it on. In the year that followed, there was an explosion of organic offerings! I won't say it was just me, but I'm sure my one small voice was heard and counted.

In ending, I must say that I do agree that variety is good, but many, many people have lived to be old, hale and healthy with very simple, limited foods...and they ate unprocessed and uncontaminated foods that had not been genetically modified in any way. We don't have that today. And they also probably had a few other things going for them...they lived in pristine environments, in small, close knit communities with a true sense of belonging. They probably spent a lot more time walking and doing physical activities outside in fresh, clean air, living a lifestyle far more peaceful than we can imagine in our hurry-hurry lives. They had deep connections to people, to home, and they often had a solid and enduring faith. Those things are just as important to our health as any single ingredient.

But here is where I will disagree again with the last blog. Even though the things that contribute to our health are multifaceted, our own experiences tell us that, YES, there ARE miracle foods and food supplements: there are foods that contain the thing that is missing and deficient in our lives, and when we add them, miracles happen. Dramatic changes in our health make our lives truly different, truly better. We may not all need the same "miracle," because we may be deficient in different ways, but I don't think that negates the miracle.

Three Cheers for coconut oil, which has proven to be so beneficial for so many people!

Virgin coconut oil from Malaysia is quite expensive (considering the cost of transportation) but I think it provides the best benefits and taste. Studies have shown coconuts from Malaysia and Costa Rica to produce the best vco.

Check out www.nutico.com if you want to purchase direct from Malaysia.

I have high cholesterol and very skeptical about Coconut oil being so good for you.

In the book people say all they do is take coconut oil and continue eating as they always did and drop the weight and feel so good. This is just another Fad and someone is getting wealthy.

I think that coconut oil is awesome. I have used it for years just for cooking and baking but picked up the "Coconut Diet" book at a garage sale last week and when I read the first part of it and it made so much sense. I started out with 1 teaspoon and have added in where I take 3 teaspoons daily. I have been only doing this for maybe 4 days but I am in awe of the way I feel. I am trying to eat healthy but I do NOT cut out carbs on any diet as it makes me crazy. Anyway, I for the first time in years fell full. I do not have the urge to have to eat or so hungry or so tired I need sugar. This for me is a miracle. I have been calling my sisters and spreading the news as I know that this for me is great. I have been exercising 5 days a week for over a year and have lost only a couple of pounds and have been tired alot but now I cannot believe the way that I feel. I also have not given up coffee as I only drink I small cup in the morning and once again I want to be healthy but not at the exspense of giving up things I truly love. I just can not beleive that I feel full and satisfied by adding the coconut oil to my daily regime. I will get back to all of you to let you know how it ends up but the way I feel is fabulous. Lyn

This post makes me want to spit up, literally. In it, the question was posed, "How can we possibly see through this nutritional confusion?" Uh, here's a suggestion: DO SOME HOMEWORK ON THE SUBJECT!!! Coconut Oil is unquestionably one of the healthiest substances on the planet, and this is far from new information. I commend the efforts and intentions of those who have authored work on the benefits of coconut oil, for at least doing something to get the word out.

I have seen first-hand the difference that it can make in the qualiy of life, and have no reservations in saying that we need to un-brainwash ourselves from the grip of designer medicines and physicians who log ZERO hours of nutritional education in med school, and focus more on that which has been made avaialble to us.

Coconut oil is not a fad or pipedream or snake oil. It is an extremely natural food that just happens to be loaded with compounds that the body needs to defend itself against many common pathogens. That said, it just doesn't register why there individuals out there in any position to speak (and in this case, write) negatively about it. They are accomplishing nothing more than throwing logs on the pharmaceutical empire's bonfire of manipulation, giving them all the more reason to market some ridiculous lauric acid based antiviral medication that will be far too costly for many to utilize.

Wake up people, if you're going to badmouth something, at least have the audacity to do some preliminary prepwork.

I am curious. Did anyone else feel exhausted when they first introduced coconut oil into their diets? Coconut oil has very strong anti-virus, anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, and anti-fungal properties. Since I know that I had some candida, I suspect that I am detoxing, which can be tiring. All the same, I am interested to know whether others felt "worse" before they felt "better." What type of symptoms did you experience and how long did it take before they went away?

Thanks!

~Kristin

Wow Kristin I thought it was just me!

I have never felt so tired in my life. In the morning I feel like I could use a couple more hours of sleep. Then, I find myself napping in the early evening. I've been taking coconut oil for a month now. I'm still feeling sluggish. The up side is my appetite seems supressed and although I haven't lost any weight in a months time I have lost a total of 6.5 inches off my bust, waist, and hips! I'm hoping my body is just adjusting to a new way of eat since I've switched to only cocunut oil and extra virgin olive oil in my diet. I'd like to hear other stories about the sluggish factor also.

It's simple.

Coconut oil kills viruses, fungi, and that stuff. If you get stomach pains, it's because you're taking too much, too fast. Start with one teaspoon a day, until your body feels comfortable. Work your way up by one teaspoon as time progresses, up to 11 or so a day. You can also eat coconut meat in addition to this. It can eliminate HIV and Candida - do a google search for it.

I just want to add my own personal experience here, I have been using coconut oil for approximately the last 8 months, I have fought weight problems all my life, yo-yo'ed from size 9/10 to 13/14 (later I was hittin 15/16), fatigue, stress,all the normal (?)inconveniences of modern living. I simply cannot explain here in a short post how much better I feel/look these days, I sometimes wonder? (what?) is this that is happening, So I am now 56 years old, feel really good, keep my weight down to a comfortable 12/13, have adequate energy, and mentally energized, I also exercise, eat better food, try to reduce stress, and all in all feel like taking care of ME! Is coconut the meca? Hey, I don't know? But I do know that something is considerable different, and I have tried every imaginable thing out there to help me in my quest to walk through this journey called living in a moderately positive way. Peace, Jimmieanna

I am very curious to find out what the health benefits are of eating just coconut meat. Searching on google I have only come across articles on coconut oil. Coconut oil may be more condensed than in coconut meat, but surely just eating coconuts would be extremely beneficial. There is something about coconut when I eat it: it is very substantial and fills one up, not to mention the wonderful taste!

I've been using virgin cocunut oil for about a year now. I wouldn't use anything else. I cook everything with it and find foods much more digestible. I haven't exercised and have a very sedentary job, so the weigh loss has been slow. I increased the consumption of the oil and started exercising and lost 21 pounds in little over a month. I also use it on my skin and hair and have noticed great results, especially in the winter months, when my skin would get so dry that rashes would break out. My acne has decreased considerably, as well as the cracks on the heels of my feet. I even used it to help with the scarring after surgery. It's become my cure all. (note: my grandmother never used anything else to cook or moisturize her skin. She died at 94 without any health problems other than sheer age, and barely a wrinkle.)

Virgin coconut oil was somewhat unheard of even in tropical countries like Malaysia. Locals have long known about the "cooling effect" of coconut water and how it has been used to treat a wide range of health problems from "heatiness', to persistent coughs, increasing appetite and to suppress thyroid problems. Many of them also use coconut oil to add a shiny sheen to their crop of hair.

With more information and knowledge available now to them it is no wonder that many of them are now turning to bottled VCO which is now touted as a a wonder drug to fight a wide range of health problems today. OTC virgin coconut oil now available include brands like Nutico and Nufera which are now widely available at pharmacies across Malaysia.

Coconut oil has now come a long way from being the hard-to-come-by freshly opened coconut water to coconut goodness available in a capsule or liquid form from your local pharmacy.

I feel like the coconut oil is making me gain weight rather than lose. Does anyone else agree or am I a minority? I am very frustrated because I have been working hard to lose weight with eating good and excercising. I do not have any energy either.

I am in the same position as Sarah's.

I started incorporating coconut oil (3 tbs a day) in my diet a month a go and I gained 5 pounds. I am usually very slim and eat well, but a lot. In my case, and maybe that is the case with Sarah also, it is that I just added fat to my diet and all the calories that go with it. I did not replace any fat with the coconut, I just added it (eating it directly). No wonder I gained weight !! Since my diet is already very healthy, I need to figure out what I want to cut out before I go any further with my coconut oil intake. I will though because I believe in the benefits of this oil and I love how my skin and my hair started to look an feel.

Eating saturated fats can't help in effective long term weight loss.
"The Experts" claim that Coconut Oil Diet is what the author claims in her book are just confusing the dieters.
There are many other proven and well balanced diet plans one should use instead of this one.
Don't put your body in danger in any way. It's the only one you have now and will have to end of your days.
Proven diet plan combined with physical activities as exercise, workout, swimming, jogging or anything you like,
Can be the real answer to healthy long term weight loss.
And remember, there is no food or medical supplement that can burn fat in human body.
Only,, Only physical efforts burn fat!!!
Don't believe ask your doctor :)

I recently bought this book and was pleasantly surprised to see that it discusses much more than coconut oil. All of the people who talk about this being a scam have probably not read the book, since it discusses overall eating habits and lifestyle changes, rather than taking a sort of "magic" supplement that will change your life. It sounds very well-researched, and although I haven't tried the recipes yet (I'll try them very soon) I have started taking the coconut oil and cutting out the refined carbohydrates. I am not trying to lose weight since I'm at a healthy weight already, but I've been growing more and more concerned lately because for the past few years, I've been getting sick extremely frequently and have no energy. Ever since I started eating the coconut oil, I've started to have more energy, and I feel much healthier in general. I think that the medical community has given people very false messages, and we need to listen to our bodies and learn what works for us. So far, this is working very well for me :)

It is very satisfying to learn that growing numbers of people are discovering the many benefits of unerefined virgin coconut oil. Rarely a day passes that I do not consume about 3 or 4 tablespoons of this oil. I only have unrefined virgin coconut oil and olive oil in my household; and all of my cooking is with coconut oil. I also apply it to my skin often.

What a blessing to know that the main saturated fat in coconut oil, namely Lauric Fatty Acid, gets transformed by the body into Monolaurin -- and that Monolaurin is a proven antiviral that can destroy the HIV/AIDS virus. Since this disease is almost an epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, and since coconuts are abundant there, I am currently a vlounteer in an ongoing effort to develop a coconut oil making operation in Kenya (East Africa).

I dont mind coconut and I can see why it has good effects to ones body, but surely it cannot work well with your digestive system for going to the toilet. I know it is not a very good subject but i feel that if i ate a lot of coconut i would be going to the toilet a lot more 'constantly'than I would like.

Coconut is amazing. My mid-morning snack is fruit and nuts. I used to have fresh coconut in there too, like the kind you get at the store, pre-scored. Carve it all up, tupperware it and drag it along with me all morning.

While eating coconut, it would give me a warm feeling in my stomach. I'd consider that my "metabolic fire". Really good stuff. A perfect energy source. Maybe it's those MCTs?

here it is
i have no comment it's fantastic that book

Coconut oil is one effective energy giver.

When I first started taking coconut oil in December of 2006, I noticed that I was having difficulty sleeping at night. I used to take a tablespoon of virgin coconut oil before I go to bed.

But as I soon found out, just a single meal with coconut oil can keep your metabolism elevated for at least 12 hours. No wonder I couldn't sleep right away. I felt like getting up. Awesome!

Coconut oil is freakish, in a good way. It's the only cooking oil with negligible amounts of omega-6 fats. It belongs in everyone's kitchen.

Ack, I should add that palm kernel oil is mostly deplete of omega-6 as well. Not palm oil, which has 5 times the amount. But palm kernel oil.

Hi Steam Showers,

Great point there but not necessarily at all. One of coconut oil's greatest, if not the greatest benefit, is to boost the immune system. 80% of your immune system is in your intestinal tract and your intestinal tract is a part of your digestive system.

Start with 1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil (VCO) a day for a week or two. Observe your bowel movement. If everything is fine, increase it to 2 a day until you reach the maintenance dose, which is about 3-4 tablespoons a day.

We are all different so pay close attention to your individual reaction. Remember that coconut oil is a food, not a medicine, so it's safe. After taking it for some time, your body should adjust for the better to the regular intake of coconut oil and you should be just fine. Of course, you should always consult your doctor first before starting any new nutritional habit.

Hope this helps,
Frederick
Coconut Oil Central

Obviously, the poster (no name?) of the "blog" has never read the book! Read before you make uneducated and uninformed comments. This book is filled down-right common sense, great recipies to eating healthy. And the coconut oil has greatly improved my energy and skin.