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Re:Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes ... by heavyset_go on Thursday February 24, 2022 @10:19PM (#30463368)
Coconut oils are high in lauric and palmitic acids, both of which have tomes of evidence pointing to them causing and exacerbating cardiovascular disease. The MCTs in coconut oil might have some positive health effects alone, but research on the consumption of coconut oil itself suggest that it increases risks of CVD.
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Re:Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes ... by sinyug on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:38AM (#30464603)
> pointing to them causing and exacerbating cardiovascular disease

Unless the studies include tens of thousands of people from South India (particularly Kerala) and Sri Lanka where the coconut and its oil have been used in large quantities in the diet for thousands of years, I don't consider them to be relevant. It is possible that the West has no tolerance for the stuff.

You should try to eat what your ancestors did. We Indians became obese and incidences of lifestyle diseases like diabetes and heart disease increased heavily after we shifted to seed oils and started consuming sugar, refined flours and processed flours in massive quantities since the late 1970s/ early 1980s.

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