Hello and welcome to Nutrition Facts. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. Today we're

going to explore smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts. Whenever there's a

new drug or surgical procedure, you can be assured that you and your doctor will

probably hear about it because there's a corporate budget driving its

promotion. But what about advances in the field of nutrition? That's what this

podcast is all about. On today's show we take a close look at coconut oil, the

fat in coconut milk. Should we eat it? Should we avoid it? What does the science

say? Our first study compares the effects of coconut oil to butter and

talo or beef fat. Even if virgin coconut oil and other products, high-end saturated

fats raise LDL bad cholesterol. Isn't that countered by the increase in HDL

good cholesterol? Let's find out. We've known for nearly a half century according

to 200 of the country's leading experts in cardiovascular diseases and are

report representing 29 national medical organizations. Including the American

Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, that coconut oil is one of

the most potent agents for elevating the level of cholesterol in the blood.

Study showing coconut oil elevates cholesterol. They back to 1955 and it was

first shown experimentally that switching someone from coconut oil to

something like soybean oil could drop cholesterol from like 200 down to 150.

Coconut oil can significantly raise cholesterol levels within hours of

consumption. A significantly increased blood cholesterol within hours of eating a

slice of cake made from coconut oil or from cod liver oil for that matter.

But not from the same cake made from flax seed oil. Coconut oil may even be

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