But wait, what? Our beloved coconut oil may be the cause of plaque clogging your arteries and might be the reason you may one day have cardiovascular disease. According to the science<\/a>, we should stop using coconut oil. The direct quote from the research paper, quite simply stated: \u00a0\u201cCoconut oil increases LDL cholesterol (unhealthy cholesterol), a cause of cardiovascular disease, and has no known offsetting favorable effects, we advise against the use of coconut oil.\u201d<\/p>\n But don\u2019t melt your coconut oil and pour it down the sink just yet. Let\u2019s look a little deeper into this claim, and more importantly into how you can live a happy healthy life, with coconut oil by your side!<\/p>\n In short, it is not bad. However, it is currently being criticized because its rich in saturated fats, which in turn increase unhealthy cholesterol levels. Notably, something that wasn\u2019t mentioned in this research was that coconut oil is also proven<\/a> to regulate total cholesterol. This includes increasing the amount of healthy cholesterol<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s a break down what fats there are, in the most simplistic way:<\/p>\n There had been decades of misleading dietary advice suggesting fats were the nutritional bad guys, stating that removing them from your diet would be the one change needed to improve health. The disastrous trend to follow saw the rise in low fat, no fat, 2% fat and other fat reduced products. The problem with this was when the food manufacturers reduced fat content it was often replaced with sugar. Which is what some would argue<\/a> lead to the rise in obesity. A major factor<\/a> also associated with heart health.<\/p>\n If we can be real for a moment, if someone is sincerely worried about their health or heart disease coconut oil shouldn\u2019t be the first thing to ditch. Removing any item from the junk food \/ food like substance category would be better than replacing coconut oil.Plus, a growing amount of research shows limiting the numerous risk factors<\/a> that contribute to heart health like stress, high sugar diets, smoking, excessive caffeine, excessive alcohol and basically anything that causes obesity are the life choices that should be addressed.Heck, even yoga can modify these risk factors<\/a> and would be more beneficial than cutting out coconut oil.<\/p>\n Even if the bad publicity was enough for you to push coconut oil towards the back of the kitchen cupboard, you can\u2019t argue against its many other beneficial uses<\/p>\n So go on, grab a spoon of coconut oil and add it to whatever and wherever you desire. If it\u2019s better health you are after, the most important thing to remember is that you should practice moderation in all of your dietary habits and lifestyle choices, rather than exclusively restricting. Dietary uses aside, coconut oil has so much more to give and is too good to ever get rid of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the aftermath of the American Heart Association\u2019s (AHA) recent bashing on coconut oil, eye brows have been raised and<\/p>\nWhy is coconut oil so bad?<\/h3>\n
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