106: Why we still love coconut oil
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Plant-based and delicious, coconut oil has become more and more popular in recent years. Studies point to its many beneficial properties which include boosting the immune system, decreasing inflammation, fighting heart disease, and more. If this is the case, why did the American Heart Association (AHA) issue a statement earlier this summer re-categorizing coconut oil as a bad fat?
Nutritional therapy practitioner Lindsea Willon discusses what is driving the AHA (hint: food politics is often more about money than our health) and she makes a case for why we can and should embrace coconut oil--and other natural, well-sourced saturated fats--in our diets.
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| 0:00.0 | As a country, we eliminated saturated fat in the 60s and since then our rates of heart disease have only increased. |
| 0:10.0 | So maybe it's time to rethink our opinion on saturated fat. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the W Traditions Podcast sponsored by the Westinay Price Foundation for |
| 0:27.5 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for |
| 0:32.1 | scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 0:36.3 | health. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm your host Hilda Labrata Gore. This is episode 106 and my guest is |
| 0:46.5 | Lindsay Willen. Lindsay is an nutritional therapy practitioner in California and |
| 0:51.6 | she was also a speaker at our recent Wies traditions |
| 0:54.5 | conference in Minneapolis. Today Lindsay explains to us the benefits of |
| 0:58.7 | saturated fats and coconut oil in particular. You'll get the history of why some believe it's healthy and why others think it's not so much. |
| 1:08.5 | The American Heart Association actually put out a statement, |
| 1:11.4 | calling coconut oil problematic, and this just happened in recent |
| 1:14.8 | months so we want you to find out does it really increase bad cholesterol as they claim or |
| 1:19.4 | does it help reduce inflammation what's the truth about it? Learn about why we are convinced |
| 1:23.9 | that coconut oil should still be on your good list and in your kitchen cabinet. |
| 1:27.5 | Before we get into the conversation we want to acknowledge our sponsors. |
| 1:31.1 | Wise traditions is supported in part by Perfect Supplements. Perfect |
| 1:35.9 | Supplements is a proud sponsor of the Wise Traditions Journal and conferences. |
| 1:39.6 | Visit Perfect Supplements.com for all of your favorite Whole Food and Organic Superfoods. |
| 1:45.7 | And Real Milk.com. |
| 1:47.6 | Did you hear it episode 104 about the real or raw milk movement? |
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