Coconuts: Healthy or Not? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A 🥥
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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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Are coconuts healthy? Get the answer from nutrition expert Dr. Neal Barnard.
Coconuts are packed with healthy nutrients but also contain a surprising amount of fat. The hefty sum has many people opting to leave them off their plate.
Discover the truth about coconuts and coconut oil as Dr. Barnard sits down with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Live.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. You send the coconut to a laboratory and they will tell you right back in about six hours that the meaty part of the coconut is really, really high and saturated fat. That's very unusual thing. You just don't see plants like that. |
| 0:18.0 | If you send virtually anything, any vegetable, any other fruit, any bean, any whole grain to a laboratory, they find very |
| 0:26.0 | little saturated fat. |
| 0:27.0 | Coconut is a really big exception. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:38.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and |
| 0:44.0 | around the world in great cities like Mobile, Alabama, Kent, Washington, and Bursa, Turkey. |
| 0:51.6 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:56.1 | This is episode 21 of season 7, number 520 overall. Coconuts. let's talk about them. |
| 1:05.0 | Why not? |
| 1:06.0 | They are a whole food that is straight from nature. |
| 1:09.0 | And most times, when you're talking about a whole food straight from nature, you're talking about a whole food straight from nature you're talking about a really healthy food |
| 1:16.9 | But why then and the holy heck do so many people say coconuts are not a health food. |
| 1:27.0 | There is a lot of confusion around it. |
| 1:29.4 | So we are calling today's episode, Coconut Confusion. |
| 1:33.4 | And we are going to clear that up for you |
| 1:35.6 | here on the exam room. |
| 1:37.1 | Because as it stands, on one side of the aisle, |
| 1:40.6 | you have a group of people who will say |
| 1:42.3 | eating a coconut will straight up kill you. |
| 1:45.0 | But across the other side of the aisle another group says that the only way a |
| 1:50.0 | coconut can kill you is if it falls on your head. So what is this skinny on |
| 1:55.8 | coconuts? Is this a healthy food that is chock full of fiber and essential |
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