The Coconut Oil Miracle: Use Nature's Elixir to Lose Weight, Beautify Skin and Hair, Prevent Heart Disease, Cancer, and Diabetes, Strengthen the Immune System, Fifth Edition

308 Pages·2023·10.684 MB·English

by  Bruce Fife

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THE
COCONUT
OIL
MIRACLE
Use Nature’s Elixir to:
• Lose Weight • Beautify Skin and Hair
• Prevent Heart Disease, Cancer, and Diabetes
• Strengthen the Immune System
BRUCE FIFE, C.N., N.D.

THiL
COCONUT
OIL
/miracle.
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5th EDITION
BRUCE FIFE, C.N., N.D.
Previously published as
The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fife, Bruce, date.
The coconut oil miracle / Bruce Fife, C.N., N.D. — 5th ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-58333-544-4
1. Coconut oil—Therapeutic use. 2. Coconut oil—Health aspects.
3. Essential fatty acids in human nutrition. I. Title.
QP144.044F542 2013 2013025488
615'.3245—dc23
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Jon J. Kabara, Ph.D. Vii
INTRODUCTION xi
1 The Truth About Coconut Oil.1
2 Understanding Fats.15
3 A New Weapon Against Heart Disease.37
4 Nature's Marvelous Germ Fighter.61
5 Eat Fat, Lose Weight.95
6 Beautiful Skin and Hair.119
7 Coconut Oil as Food and as Medicine.144
8 Eat Your Way to Better Health.198
9 Recipes for Nutrition and Beauty.227
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FOREWORD
Up until now only a small group of lipid (fat) researchers were familiar
with the incredible health benefits of a unique group of saturated
fats found in coconut oil. Most of those in the health care industry
have been generally ignorant of these benefits, shunning coconut oil
because of common misconceptions regarding dietary fat. But this
situation is beginning to change as the amazing nutritional and thera¬
peutic benefits of tropical oils become better known.
In this book the reader will learn that not all saturated fats are
unhealthy. In fact, there is a subgroup of saturated fats that actually
have a positive effect on your health. This book provides a brief sum¬
mary of the remarkable health benefits lipid researchers have slowly
been uncovering regarding a unique group of saturated fats found in
mother’s milk and coconut oil known as “medium-chain fatty acids.”
The story is fascinating and can have a pronounced effect on your
health.
Those who take the time to pick up this book may be surprised to
FOREWORD
learn that these saturated fats promote good health. Contrary to what
is generally believed by both the lay public and medical professionals,
the saturated fats found in coconut oil are actually good for you. This
should not be surprising, because if coconut oil were unhealthy it
would have been evidenced in populations who have used it for gen¬
erations. In fact, just the opposite is the case. Those populations who
use coconut oil demonstrate a remarkable level of good health.
Historically, coconut oil is one of the earliest oils to be used as a
food and as a pharmaceutical. Ayurvedic literature has long promoted
the health and cosmetic benefits of coconut oil. Even today the Asian
Pacific community, which may represent as much as half the world’s
population, uses coconut oil in one form or another. Many of these
people enjoy remarkably good health and longevity. Studies on people
who live in tropical climates and who have a diet high in coconut oil
show that they are healthier and have fewer incidences of heart dis¬
ease, cancer, digestive complaints, and prostate problems. In North
America and Europe popular cookbooks from the late nineteenth
century often included coconut oil in many recipes, yet heart disease
and cancer were almost unheard of at the time. Common sense would
suggest that the saturated fats in coconut oil are not the poisons they
are often made out to be.
Why, then, all the negative publicity regarding coconut oil? Since
it is thought that “saturated fats” are involved in heart disease, coconut
oil has been considered a health risk. Much of the information linking
coconut oil and increased heart disease is, however, circumstantial at
best and flawed at worst. Studies showing that dietary coconut oil
raises blood cholesterol and increases the possible risk of heart disease
were poorly conceived because the essential fats were not included in