Coconut Products And VCO For Health And Nutrition - A Strategy For Making Coconut Global Competitive
1) Why the rejection of coconut oil has led to America's present health predicament of overweight and obesity, and uncontrolled rates of diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, lung diseases and cancer.
2) Does coconut oil really cause coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis? If not, what does? The coconut oil consuming nations of the world have low rates of coronary heart disease. All evidences now point to inflammation and low DDL as principal instigators of plaque formation.
3) The chemical properties and biologic actions that make coconut oil superior to other oils for cooking and health use, viz chemical nature and stability, absorbability, metabolism , physiologic and pharmacologic actions - antimicrobial, immunoregulatory , anti inflammatory.