People are getting exciting results with weight loss and general health improvement by adding coconut oil to their diets. There are several popular books on coconut diets and coconut oil right now. There is a list of some of them in our Resources Appendix, if you are interested, but the basic diet secrets of coconut are the same.
It seems we have just discovered something that was lost to several generations of people growing up in the United States. Coconut oil was prevalent in the early 1900’s, but it has disappeared almost entirely from our diet since then, and we are certainly not any healthier for it.
Coconut oil has been credited with helping people lose weight, as well as helping people with immune function disorders, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and much more. The tropical people who ate lots of coconuts had very few health problems, until we taught them that it was a “bad saturated fat.”
One of the reasons that coconut oil has been ignored is because it has a very high percentage of saturated fat. Before you throw this book away, and never touch a coconut, be open to some information that may go against what you have been taught and believe. It may very well go against what your doctor or nutritionist have been taught to believe.
Saturated fat can be good for you! Much of today’s Standard American Diet (or SAD) is based on the faulty idea that saturated fat is bad for you and replacing saturated fat with “heart healthy” vegetable oils is better. Yet since Americans have lived with a diet of low saturated fat, all we have done is become unhealthier, and our illnesses and obesity rates are at an all time high.
I know that my family did not ignore the advice of health authorities. We ate lean meat. We cut out butter, cheese, lard, and nuts and switched to margarine, shortening and vegetable oils. We added fiber to our diets. And we continued to gain weight, so we went on low calorie diets. And still we gained more weight and developed illnesses such as strokes, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. I know it is not just my family. The rate of obesity and illness had risen sharply in America in the last 60 years. What went wrong?
To begin with, dieting does not work. Fad diets, which include strict low calorie diets and quick weight loss diets, help us initially to lose weight by burning muscle and dumping water. But once the body understands that it is being starved, it starts hoarding fat, and you start craving it. Suddenly you start binging on the wrong kinds of fats, like French fries, donuts and potato chips. You can’t help it.
It is your body’s natural defense mechanism to keep you from starving. So as you binge, you break the low calorie diet and start to gain weight. In the end, you weigh more than when you started the diet. This is called the yo-yo diet cycle.
Low-fat diets are usually very low on the protein we need to build muscles. This is why so many people on low-fat diets find it so hard to lose weight and build muscle. They also become tired very easily.
Low-fat diets also keep you feeling hungry, which is another reason low-fat dieters over-eat. Low-fat diets are usually high carbohydrate diets. We need good complex carbohydrates in our diet, but without healthy fats, you will lack energy, have a lower metabolism, and still get fat. Good fats in our diet help control and regulate our appetite, so we feel satisfied and don’t over-eat. (For more information on dieting and why it doesn’t work, get the free “Dieting Report” on our website at http://enzyme-health.com).
By now several generations of people have been taught that the way to fight obesity and disease is to cut saturated fats (or all fats) from our diets. And each succeeding generation seems to have more illnesses and physical problems than the last.
As we teach people all over the world to abandon their traditional diet for a “healthier” more American diet, they are developing the many modern health problems that we face.
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