Comments on: Eat Fat to Lose Fat: A Real-Life Example

By: asada

asada — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:58:44 +0000

@ michelle

When I take coconut oil, I prepare tea and scoop it on top of the tea. Then I get my glass of water and my coconut oil in one!
Yes it does work (along with controlling carbs and moderate movement).

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:30:32 +0000

Great post. My husband has type 2 diabetes. Over the last few months he has lost 10kg and his blood sugar levels have gone down just from cutting out ALL grains, cutting out as much sugar as we can (there’s so much hidden sugar), eating unprocessed foods such as raw vegetables and animal proteins including saturated fats. He’s not even exercising much more than usual. It is hard to break the old eating patterns that we grew up with, though.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:35:46 +0000

Mechelle, i have heard this as well….BUT warming it in the microwave KILLS the good in coconut oil. To make it liquid, scoop some in a container and put the container in warm water to liquify. Or, set on water on stove and heat until melted.

By: Mechelle

Mechelle — Fri, 13 May 2011 03:15:47 +0000

A friend told me that her doctor suggested she buy organic coconut oil, take one table spoon, put in cup and microwave until liguid and drink it every night to lose weight, can this be good for you and has anyone heard of this working?

By: KristenM

KristenM — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:02:03 +0000

Kay — You’re right. And I also advocate cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil. Regular readers of my blog know what I mean when I refer to vegetable oils, though: the new, modern oils that were only introduced to our diets within the last hundred years (like soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil, and other seed oils). Nina Planck likes to call them the “yellow oils.” Perhaps I should start calling them that, too.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:50:16 +0000

Vegetable oils = BAD
Animal fats = GOOD

I think the generalization of the first statement is wrong. You advocate coconut oil and in the same post, you have an ad for hemp oil and coconut oil. Those are vegetable oils, right?

Kay

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:58:34 +0000

Great, thanks again!

By: KristenM

KristenM — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:01:26 +0000

Kyle — The first place I heard about it was in reading Mary Enig’s book Eat Fat to Lose Fat. In it, she talks about the oil production/extraction processes used to make vegetable seed oils. I looked online for an excerpt, and found this more condensed treatment of the subject matter: http://www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html#modern

That link takes you to a subsection of a much longer article that is well worth the read!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:48:25 +0000

Oh, that’s true, we probably aren’t used to it, thanks for clearing that up!

In one article when you said that most oils are already rancid, where did you read/hear about that? I can’t believe they’d do that to us!

By: KristenM

KristenM — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:34:41 +0000

Kyle — Canola is actually one of the more “decent” vegetable oils as far as this particular balance of fats goes. But there are other problems with it:

– it has too many polyunsaturated fats (our body only needs about 4% of our fat intake to be PUFAs),
– the high-temperature, high-pressure methods used to create it cause the fats in the oil (particularly the delicate Omega-3s) to go radically oxidize (essentially go rancid), and manufacturers then have to chemically deodorize and bleach the oil to make it somewhat palatable
– it’s a new oil to the human diet, so our bodies aren’t adapted to eating it

That’s just off the top of my head.