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Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor

Shailaja Neelakantan | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Aug 23, 2018, 14:02 IST

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Highlights

• The oil - associated with India in large part - gained superfood status around 2011
• It was seen as boosting immunity and helping with weight loss.
• But by now, coconut oil has taken a beating, and it looks like it's only downhill for its reputation

Coconut oil
NEW DELHI: A Harvard professor has said that consuming coconut oil is the worst thing one can do - she called it "pure poison" - and the video talk she made this claim in has gone viral on YouTube garnering a little over a million hits as of Thursday, reported newspaper USA Today.

The oil - associated with India in large part - gained superfood status around 2011 among much of the healthy set in the West - it became a fad in the US - as it was seen as boosting immunity and helping with weight loss. But by now, coconut oil has taken a beating, and it looks like it's only downhill for its reputation.

"I can only warn you urgently about coconut oil. This is one of the worst foods you can eat," said the Harvard faculty member Karin Michels in her video talk in German, which was titled "Coconut oil and other nutritional errors. And then she said, "coconut oil is pure poison", and repeated that claim - "pure poison" - as many as three times during her talk, reported Sciencealert.com.

Michels's reasoning is that coconut oil - very popular in southern India, especially in Kerala - is extremely high in saturated fat, consumption of which leads to high cholesterol and heart disease. The American Heart Association said its data has shown more than 80 percent of the fat in coconut oil is saturated, a lot higher than in butter (63 percent), beef fat (50 percent) and pork lard (39 percent).




Another Harvard professor, at the university's School of Public Health, said oils high in saturated fat raise an individual's 'bad' cholesterol; yes, there's 'good' and 'bad' cholesterol.

"Too much saturated fat in the diet is unhealthy because it raises 'bad' LDL cholesterol levels, which increases the risk of heart disease. So it would seem that coconut oil would be bad news for our hearts," said Harvard Health Letter, published Wednesday.

Michels, of "coconut oil is pure poison", fame is an adjunct professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Curiously, in her university's newsletter, called Harvard Health Letter, Walter C. Willett, a doctor at Harvard School of Public Health, added that coconut oil is not all bad.

"What's interesting about coconut oil is that it also gives 'good' HDL cholesterol a boost. Fat in the diet, whether it's saturated or unsaturated, tends to nudge HDL levels up, but coconut oil seems to be especially potent at doing so," it said.

Willet did add though that while "there's no problem using coconut oil occasionally...for now, I'd use coconut oil sparingly."


Just because something isn't as bad is something else doesn't mean it's good, said Willet.


"Coconut oil's special HDL-boosting effect may make it 'less bad' than the high saturated fat content would indicate, but it's still probably not the best choice among the many available oils to reduce the risk of heart disease," he said.
Top Comment
LoL!!!
Professor or mad western propagandist???
If coconut oil is pure pure poison how states like Kerala still alive!!!And population increased!!!
90% of Indians use coconut oil for hair... Read MoreBorn Nationalist


No fear, though, as there's a new food fad now, also related to India - ghee.


"Ghee is lactose-free and, compared to butter, much lower in cholesterol. It is also jam-packed with fat-soluble vitamins A,D, E, and K. These have wonderful antioxidant properties, and play a critical role in strengthening our immune systems," said a piece in the Los Angeles Times in January.

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[UltimaOnline]

The professor's error is in her failing to distinguish between cooked oils/fats, versus raw oils/fats.

Oils/fats such as coconut, olive, avocado, etc, are incredibly healthy when raw, which is also why they're incredibly toxic when cooked (especially high-heat prolonged deep frying).

Hence, avoid these oils for cooking, but use these oils raw, that is the secret.

 

[motormafia]

https://www.livescience.com/63405-coconut-oil-poison-or-not.html

This Professor Called Coconut Oil 'Pure Poison.' Is She Right?

By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | August 22, 2018 04:48pm ET

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A Harvard nutrition professor's lecture has ignited a new front in the battle over coconut oil.
In one camp, coconut oil acolytes who claim the stuff can prevent heart disease, increase metabolism and burn fat. In the other, researchers like University of Freiburg professor Karin Michels, who called the stuff "pure poison" in a German-language YouTube video posted in July. On Monday, Business Insider brought Michels' comments to an English-speaking audience with an article about the lecture. Michels holds a joint appointment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
As it turns out, Michels' assessment of coconut oil is a lot closer to what the scientific evidence has to say about the fat than what acolytes claim — though "poison" may be a bit of stretch. Coconut oil is rich in saturated fats, which puts it on the American Heart Association's (AHA) list of foods that are better to avoid. While the occasional splashy study argues that saturated fat is actually healthy, the preponderance of evidence supports the same old conclusion: Saturated fat, and coconut oil by extension, just isn't that good for you. [7 Foods Your Heart Will Hate]
"It's not a difficult topic, scientifically," said Frank Sacks, a professor of cardiovascular disease prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of an AHA advisory on dietary fats released last year. Sacks said that he is acquainted with Michels, but did not know of her interest in dietary fats.
The scoop on saturated fat
Coconut oil is about 82 percent saturated fat, according to the AHA. If a fat is saturated, that means it is molecularly structured so that each carbon atom in the fatty acid chain is linked to its maximum number of hydrogen atoms.
The 2017 report by the AHA said that replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats, like the kind found in olive oil and other vegetable oils, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease by around 30 percent, as found in randomized control trials (in which people are randomly assigned one type of fat in their diet versus another). Because of these experiments, the organization recommends that people keep their daily calories from saturated fats at 5 percent to 6 percent of their daily calories. In a 2,000-calorie diet, that's about 13 grams (0.5 ounces) of saturated fat per day. A tablespoon (15 milliliters) of coconut oil provides 11 grams (0.4 ounces) of saturated fat.
"For most people, that's not going to be where they want to choose their saturated fats from," said Melissa Majumdar, a dietitian at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and a spokesperson for the U.S. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
That 2017 report was nothing new; the AHA has remained staunch in its advice regarding saturated fats for years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the American Diabetes Association publish similar guidelines.
"It's very straightforward. There's a huge amount of scientific evidence of many different types from population studies to experiments in animals to experiments in humans that show that saturated fat raises LDL cholesterol," Sacks told Live Science.
Excess LDLs, or low-density lipoproteins, in the blood build up into plaques inside arteries that stiffen the vessel walls and lead to cardiovascular disease. Occasionally, Sacks said, a study comes out that contradicts the preponderance of evidence. These studies usually get a lot of media play, he said, but they are often flawed. For example, a 2017 study in the journal The Lancet found that high carbohydrate intake in a population increased cardiovascular deaths in that group, but high saturated-fat intake did not.
However, Sacks said, that study had major methodological problems. These included not breaking down carbohydrates by type (processed or whole grain?) and not taking into account that many of the populations studied were subsisting on a high-carb, low-nutrient poverty diet.
Coconut oil claims
Many of the health claims surrounding coconut oil rely on animal studies or research not intended to test the stuff as a part of the human diet. For example, the website of chiropractor and clinical nutritionist Josh Axe, a coconut-oil proponent, touts a 1985 study in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health as showing that coconut oil can boost weight loss. That study actually injected rats with a synthetic chemical resembling the capric acid found in coconut oil. The rats did indeed stop eating and lost weight, but the injection also slowed the animals' heart rates and lowered their basal body temperature, a toxic effect — though fortunately not one particularly relevant to eating coconut products, given that the study was not about diet or even coconut oil. [7 Biggest Diet Myths]
Another study commonly cited as evidence that coconut oil boosts metabolism does not, in fact, make any such claim, said that study's author, Columbia University's Marie-Pierre St-Onge. Her research has found that refined medium-chain triglyceride oil, a type of fat found in coconut oil, appears to be no more unhealthy than olive oil when included in a weight-loss diet. Some of St-Onge's studies suggest that medium-chain triglycerides might even promote fat loss compared to the long-chain triglycerides found in other vegetable oils.
But, St-Onge told the AHA in July, her research used a refined oil consisting only of medium-chain triglycerides, different from the off-the-shelf coconut, which is only partly medium-chain triglycerides. It would take 10 tablespoons (150 milliliters) of typical coconut oil to equal the levels of medium-chain triglycerides in St-Onge's research, which would add up to more than 1,000 calories.
In fact, when St-Onge and her colleagues tested standard coconut oil versus corn oil in a study published in the journal Insights in Nutrition and Metabolism in July 2017, they found no evidence that coconut oil was better for feelings of being satiated, insulin levels, glucose levels or resting energy expenditure. (The study focused on overweight and obese adolescents.)
The bottom line, Majumdar told Live Science, is that coconut oil is fine — say it with us — in moderation.
"I think Americans, in general, like to look at something independently, and we can't look at any food like that," she said. There's no one miracle food that can provide a quick fix for weight loss or health, she said; everything is about balance.
"My message is that we can eat coconut oil," Majumdar said, "but to be mindful of how it fits into our daily life."
Originally published on Live Science.




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[motormafia]

The professor's error is in her failing to distinguish between cooked oils/fats, versus raw oils/fats.

Oils/fats such as coconut, olive, avocado, etc, are incredibly healthy when raw, which is also why they're incredibly toxic when cooked (especially high-heat prolonged deep frying).

Hence, avoid these oils for cooking, but use these oils raw, that is the secret.

Nasi Byrani will kill you ?

 

[halsey02]

Nasi Byrani will kill you ?

psst!..Nasi Briyani uses GHEE!...

 

[virus]

this exprain why snake got small cock.... too much lies and cockcocknut

 

[cocobobo]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/aug/22/coconut-oil-is-pure-poison-says-harvard-professor

Coconut oil is 'pure poison', says Harvard professor
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Coconut oil contain 86% saturated fat - far more than butter, lard or dripping. Photograph: Jeff Blackler/Rex/Shutterstock

For certain health food shops and wellbeing sites it is the panacea that helps everything from bad hair and mental grogginess to obesity and haemorrhoids. But the carefully-crafted image of coconut oil as a cure for many ills has been roundly rejected by a Harvard professor.
Karin Michels, an epidemiologist at the Harvard TH Chan school of public health, poured scorn on the superfood movement and singled out the fad for coconut oil in particular, calling the substance “one of the worst things you can eat” that was as good for wellbeing as “pure poison”.
Michels made her comments in a recent lecture entitled “Coconut oil and other nutritional errors” at the University of Freiburg, where she holds a second academic position as director of the Institute for Prevention and Tumour Epidemiology. The speech, delivered in German, has now been watched nearly a million times on YouTube.
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Michels based her warning on the high proportion of saturated fat in coconut oil, which is known to raise levels of so-called LDL cholesterol, and so the risk of cardiovascular disease. Coconut oil contains more than 80% saturated fat, more than twice the amount found in lard, and 60% more than is found in beef dripping.
Last year, the American Heart Association reviewed the evidenceon coconut oil among other foodstuffs. While three quarters of the US public considered coconut oil to be healthy, the review noted that only 37% of nutritionists agreed. The authors attributed the gulf in perception to the marketing of coconut oil in the popular press. “Because coconut oil increases LDL cholesterol, a cause of CVD, and has no known offsetting favourable effects, we advise against the use of coconut oil,” the review concluded.
Other organisations have issued similar warnings. “Coconut oil can be included in the diet, but as it is high in saturated fats should only be included in small amounts and as part of a healthy balanced diet,” the British Nutrition Foundation said. “There is to date no strong scientific evidence to support health benefits from eating coconut oil.”

i guess if you put it in your hair it can get absorbed through the skull

 

[AhMeng]

The next few months, India scientists will publish 1000 research papers to prove that coconut oil is good. Lol

 

[syed putra]

this exprain why snake got small cock.... too much lies and cockcocknut

Those with small cocks use the head more often. Thats why no chinese can even dream of a top job in silicon valley.

 

[syed putra]

And moh eat bacon and eggs and tgat is healthy i suppose as oppose to say, torsay, roti tisu, appam...

 

[Rogue Trader]

All these scientists and nutrition experts are bankrolled by commodity companies to endorse products

 

[ChanRasjid]

This Harvard professor cannot be wrong. She has a Ph.D.

Those scientists from the top universities are the brightest in the world. If they could tell you how the universe started with a Big Bang 13.8 billion years back (albeit just three sig. figures ...), how routinely easy it is for them to know what is inside a coconut on earth.

Chan Rasjid

 

[virus]

This Harvard professor cannot be wrong. She has a Ph.D.

Those scientists from the top universities are the brightest in the world. If they could tell you how the universe started with a Big Bang 13.8 billion years back (albeit just three sig. figures ...), how routinely easy it is for them to know what is inside a coconut on earth.

Chan Rasjid

Next time I bang a hooker will invite researchers to do quantum physique, usually bang big n keep leep. They will scream for more. Hope this will advance science, but they will need to pay for the hookers... To make them go away, else the research may take weeks, months or decades

 

[motormafia]

psst!..Nasi Briyani uses GHEE!...

Kitchen secret receipt both Nasi Briyani & Nasi Lemak added some Coconut ingredients to their rice to smell fragrance.

 

[glockman]

Should not tell those shitskin, let them continue using coconut oil. A lot of problems in the world would be resolved once they die off.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Should not tell those shitskin, let them continue using coconut oil. A lot of problems in the world would be resolved once they die off.

Shitskins are more toxic than the coconut oil they slather on!

 

[eatshitndie]

this may explain why a shit cuntry with the largest number of vegans in the world has also the highest rate of heart disease and cardiovascular mortality.

 

[AhMeng]

Shitskins are more toxic than the coconut oil they slather on!

This, I absolutely agree. Lol

 

[halsey02]

Kitchen secret receipt both Nasi Briyani & Nasi Lemak added some Coconut ingredients to their rice to smell fragrance.

psst!...Nasi Lemak needs coconut santan or coconut milk....that is why it is called LEMAK..yo!. It is full of coconut...whereas Briyani, you need to use GHEE..gee!...you add coconut oil...the cooked rice, smell funny...

 

[red amoeba]

Lard makes chow kwey tiao nice. Deep fried lard is a must for prawn mee. To me these are incredibly healthy.