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Health Benefits of Coconut Oil
Amazing Coconut Oil can help promote weight loss, heart health, energy and reduce the risk of diabetes and other “age-related” diseases like cancer. Coconut oil even helps get rid of wrinkles! What more could you ask?
- Promotes heart health
- Promotes weight loss when and if you need it
- Supports immune system health
- Provides an immediate energy source
- Keeps skin healthy and youthful looking
- Helps to protect the skin from premature
aging, skin cancer and blemishes
- Supports the proper thyroid function
- Reduces risk of arteriosclerosis and related
illnesses. - Reduces risk of cancer and other
degenerative diseases
- Helps prevent bacterial, viral, and fungal
(including yeast) infections. - Supports immune system function.
- Helps control diabetes.
Coconut Oil and Candida Yeast
Coconut oil also helps control and eliminates Candida yeast. Candida yeast overgrowth can occur when people take antibiotics or eat a diet of processed foods and sugar. Candida yeast can cause a wide variety of symptoms such as fatigue, headaches and digestive disorders. The antifungal properties of coconut oil fight Candida yeast and promote friendly intestinal bacteria in the system.
Other benefits of coconut oil
Coconut oil has a mild delicate flavor and is heat resistant, making it ideal for cooking. Coconut oil also has a long shelf life, unlike other oils which can get rancid quickly.
In the past, one study showed that coconut oil, as well as other saturated fats, were bad for our serum cholesterol levels. These studies, however, were done on hydrogenated coconut oil, a process that alters the original form of the pure, natural coconut oil, producing trans fats.
Newer studies, done on virgin coconut oil or 100% natural coconut oil, have shown that coconut oil is one of the healthiest oils on earth.
Coconut oil and weight loss
Substituting coconut oils for other oils in your diet helps to promote weight loss because coconut oil is a naturally reduced-calorie fat which is beneficial to the thyroid, the gland that controls your metabolism. Polyunsaturated vegetable oils, on the other hand, depress the thyroid and lower your metabolic rate, causing weight gain.
The fats in coconut oil produce energy, not fat.
Coconut oil dosage
What is a good amount of coconut oil to consume? Most experts recommend three to four tablespoons per day to build up the immune system and gain the benefits listed above.
What kind of coconut oil should you buy?
The best type of coconut oil is unrefined. Never by hydrogenated coconut oil, (or any other kind of hydrogenated oil, for that matter). Virgin or organic coconut oil is best as commercial coconut oils are refined, bleached or deodorized and contain chemicals your body doesn’t need.
Virgin or Extra Virgin Coconut Oil?
The term “extra virgin coconut oil” is a term borrowed from the olive oil industry and there is really no such product when applied to coconut oil. Therefore look for virgin coconut oil.
Get coconut oil in your diet
Replace refined vegetable oils used in cooking with coconut oil. Use in place of margarine, shortening, and other hydrogenated oils in your diet. Coconut oil even beats olive oil for cooking.
- Add coconut oil to your daily smoothie
- Use coconut milk in place of cow’s milk in puddings, chowder and soup and gravy, to name a few.
- Add dried coconut to granola or other recipes
Coconut oil for your hair
Use as a conditioner to soften and condition the scalp.
Use coconut oil as a pre-wash conditioner to get rid of dandruff
Coconut Oil for your Skin
Most commercial skin lotions are mainly water and chemicals. Coconut oil is natural and chemical free. Apply coconut oil to your skin to boost the skin’s natural antimicrobial and acid barrier to create healthier skin. Leaves your skin soft but not greasy. There are many coconut oil health benefits for the skin
Coconut oil fights wrinkles in the skin and helps fight sun damage like liver spots and other blemishes.
Coconut oil heals and repairs skin and aids in getting rid of that outer layer of dead skin cells, creating a more youthful appearance. It can help bring back a youthful appearance and strengthens underlying tissues, leaving skin looking healthier and younger
Coconut oil will help reduce chronic skin inflammations and rashes like psoriasis and eczema
Coconut oil has healing properties which will help wounds and blisters
Use Coconut Oil for your Pets
Coconut oil can help your pet with health problems, just the same as it helps you. Here’s how:
- Animals can suffer from underactive thyroid, which can cause weight gain.
- Get rid of ear mites by gently applying warmed coconut oil to your pet’s ears once or twice a day with a cotton swab. Coconut oil is an antibacterial, antimicrobial and antiviral which will alleviate ear mites in a jiffy. Be sure not to apply too deeply into the ear canal.
- A teaspoon of Coconut Oil mixed into your pet’s food every day will help with dry skin and make their coats sleek and shiny.
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