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From:	Dan (108.52.16.23)
Subject:	Dr. Doug, What about the Kitavan tribe who eat 20% saturated fat from coconut?
Date:	August 16, 2012 at 2:41 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: what evidence coconut oil is bad posted by Dr. Doug Graham on August 16, 2012 at 3:52 am:

Thanks Dr. Doug,
The Kitavan diet that I mentioned eats 20% daily calories from fat,
which basically agrees with what you said about not going beyond the
teens. Nonetheless the Kitavans eat mostly saturated fat and have
virtually no heart disease or cancer. I haven't found any evidence
coconut fat is dangerous to the heart?
Here's a study I read on pubmed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21669587
conclusion:
Researchers found that coconut oil-based diets lowered post-prandial
tissue plasminogen activator and lipoprotein (a).2 Lp(a) is a blood
marker that is a much more accurate indication of proneness to heart
attack than cholesterol levels. Researchers had believed that levels of
Lp(a) were unaffected by various forms of dietary fat intake. However,
in this study, Lp(a) was lowered when the subjects consumed a high-
saturated fat diet and somewhat lowered when they consumed a
slightly lowered-saturated fat diet. The saturated fat used in both of
these diets was coconut oil.

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