What is up with coconut oil

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Anonymous wrote:It also has antibacterial properties

Google is your friend

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19134433/

Not convincing.

Do your own Google research. I posted the first link I clicked on. Article choice was totally arbitrary. There is plenty of stuff you can read up on.

I grew up with coconut oil pressed from our own trees. We use it for cooking and beauty purposes, but no one makes a fuss over it.
It is certainly a good oil for many purposes, but the same can be said of many others. There is nothing especially miraculous about coconut oil.

As someone born in India, I find the coconut oil hype absolutely ludicrous.

I'm the pp who posted about our home-made coconut oil, and I'm also from (southern) India. Some savvy marketers have figured out a good way to make a buck.

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Anonymous wrote:It also has antibacterial properties

Google is your friend

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19134433/

Not convincing.

Do your own Google research. I posted the first link I clicked on. Article choice was totally arbitrary. There is plenty of stuff you can read up on.

I grew up with coconut oil pressed from our own trees. We use it for cooking and beauty purposes, but no one makes a fuss over it.
It is certainly a good oil for many purposes, but the same can be said of many others. There is nothing especially miraculous about coconut oil.

As someone born in India, I find the coconut oil hype absolutely ludicrous.

I'm the pp who posted about our home-made coconut oil, and I'm also from (southern) India. Some savvy marketers have figured out a good way to make a buck.

I'm from South India too and love coconut oil! Use it on my hair, baby's skin and hair, in cooking, you name it. It's versatile and tastes delicious. I use it because I grew up with it though, not because of some purported miraculous properties.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband and I have been on Paleo for several months and use coconut oil with everything. Everything we used to use olive oil for, we now use coconut oil. I also use it for lotion and in my hair. I find that it has a really nice slight sweetness to it.

How is a coconut more "paleo" than an olive?

The reason I don't like to use it often is that it has a strong smell and taste/