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7 Reasons Why You Should Be Using Coconut Oil
Many people feel that coconut oil is not good for health as there has been a widespread misconception regarding harmful effects from using coconut oil. But recently people across the world have started to realize the health benefits of coconut oil. In fact, coconut oil is now considered as one of the healthiest oils and can serve as alternative edible oil for your cooking needs. This article is going to explain top seven reasons that make coconut oil an excellent edible oil solution for cooking.
The seven important health benefits of using coconut oil are listed as follows:
- Coconut oil doesn’t accumulate as body fats: If you have any slight concern regarding obesity epidemic, you will be glad to know that contrary to other common cooking oils such as corn, soy or vegetable oil, the chances of accumulating body fat by using coconut oil is almost negligible. The reason lies in the fact that coconut oil contains medium-chain triglycerides or MCT, which is easily burned by our body. As the coconut oil is basically MCT, it is quickly absorbed and used up as energy without any chances of turning it into body fat. On the other hand, most of the other common cooking oils or fats are composed of long chain triglycerides or LCT, which normally gets stored as the body fats.
Traditionally, coconut oil has been used as the basic staple diet by the people living in the tropical countries for generations. Despite taking excessive amounts of coconut oil each day, these people have remained slim and trim due to the healthy properties of coconut oil.
It has been observed that when these people use modern oils instead of their traditional coconut oil, they get all the medical complications of our modern society, including obesity.
The people engaged in the animal feed business know this fact over generations, and they have used vegetable oils for producing fatty meats. Their livestock gained weight when they are given vegetable oils while coconut oil was not so good for fattening their animals.
- Coconut oil boosts your metabolism: You will be surprised to know that coconut oil not only burns quickly, but it also increases your metabolism so that the body fats are more efficiently turned into energy. It has been scientifically documented the increase in metabolism is highly beneficial for weight loss.
It has been reported that coconut oil enhances the calorie burning by three times because lots of heat is produced when medium chain triglycerides are quickly turned into energy. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition confirms that medium chain triglycerides actively burn calories for six hours after meal enhancing the calorie burning by three times than the long-chain triglycerides.
In one of the articles published by Woman’s World magazine in February 15, 2005 coconut oil was reported as the underground secret for high metabolism.
The coconut oil offers additional health benefits for people having thyroid problems. While modern vegetable and corn oils are known to slow down the thyroid functionality, coconut oil stimulates the thyroid glands for producing extra thyroid hormones.
- Coconut oil is fortified with omega-3 fatty acids: Unfortunately, most of the cooking oil used in the United States contains omega-6 fatty acids and therefore, we are exposed to excessive amounts of omega-6 fatty acids.
- We should have optimal ratios of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids, which happen to be 1:1 ratio, but we have 50 times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids. We have to consume more omega-3 fatty acids and cut down our consumption of omega-6 fatty acids to balance this ratio. Coconut oil is fortified with omega-3 fatty acid, which is going to improve your health.
- Coconut oil is your power house: The nature has created coconut oil as the richest source of medium-chain triglycerides. The medium-chain triglycerides induce thermogenesis causing increased metabolism, high energy levels and weight loss.
- Increased metabolism with a perfect combination of medium chain triglycerides and omega-3 fatty acids provide more than sufficient energy and people using coconut oil experience full energy level throughout their daily schedule. The diet plan with sufficient coconut and coconut oil is extremely helpful for the people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
- Coconut oil is very good for your skin and hairs: Coconut oil is very nourishing for your skin and hair, and you can directly apply coconut oil on your hairs and skin. The healing and nourishing properties of coconut oil are well known. Its application can instantly provide relief from skin problems such as rashes. The coconut oil is helpful in fighting many skin problems, including yeast infections and coconut oil restores the skins with the younger look.
The antioxidant properties of the coconut oil neutralize the skin damages caused by the free radicals, and it gives a very soft and smooth skin. Coconut oil is the perfect massage oil.
- Coconut oil has many health advantages than other oils: The infection-fighting and medicinal properties of the coconut oil is well-known and traditionally used by the people in the tropical countries. External application as well as internal consumption of coconut oil allows the skin to ward off the harmful fungus, bacteria and viruses.
Most of the oils contain polyunsaturated fatty acids which oxidize easily and cause free-radical damage to the body. The free-radical damages are known to cause many health complications ranging from arthritis to cancer vulnerability. The coconut oil doesn’t oxidize easily as compared to the other oils and in fact, neutralize the damage caused by the free radicals. Coconut oil is also very instrumental in the efficient absorption of many nutrients, including the vitamin E.
- Coconut oil is the best cooking oil: You might be surprised to know that coconut oil is better than olive oil when it comes to cooking your food as coconut oil has a higher smoke point than olive oil. Coconut oil can withstand higher temperatures, and this quality makes it the best omega-3 oils as compared to flax and olive oils. Coconut oil is the best cooking oil for higher temperatures.
As compared to other oils coconut oil hardly goes rancid. The coconut oil remains stable for more than a year at normal room temperature while other oils go rancid even before you purchase them. The rancid oils are known to enhance the free-radical damage leading to higher susceptibility to cancer.
The misconception surrounding the use of coconut oil has denied us the health benefits from consuming coconut oil enjoyed by the people of the tropical countries over generations. Fortunately, the health benefits and secrets of using coconut oil have been rediscovered. With increasing awareness of health benefits from using coconut oil more and more people are going to consume coconut oil. The coconut oil supplements are going to dominate the market. Why don’t you lead the popular crowd and start consuming coconut oil as your favorite edible oil?
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