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From:	Dan (108.52.16.23)
Subject:	what evidence coconut oil is bad
Date:	August 15, 2012 at 7:22 pm PST

Hello,
I'm one week into the 80/10/10. I can vouch from personal experience that nuts
are hard to digest and I often had gall bladder pains after too many, so I'm
happy to cut down on nuts. I never ate much avocado anyway. BUT I love raw
coconut butter and raw coconut oil and have not read of one study that shows
that coconut fat is bad for people. I've read of healthy South Pacific tribes like
the Kitava who get a whole lot of their calories from saturated coconut fat. I've
been adding coconut fat to my fruit smoothies and have had no gall bladder
pains at all and somewhat less hunger. It seems to me that coconut and
avocado and nuts can't just be lumped together as 'fats are fats' and will all have
the same effects in the body. Coconut is saturated, avocado is largely
monounsaturated, and nuts and seeds are largely polyunsaturated (which is a
delicate oil which I suspect goes rancid when the nuts sit in those bins for too
long). Thank you so much, I enjoy your book and your example.

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