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The latest Super Foods. Remember when coconut and especially coconut oil was called a super food and was all the hype, yet coconut oil is full of saturated fats (higher than in butter) and actually raises cholesterol levels when consumed regularly.
Coconut oil is a superfood because you can eat it and use it to do butt stuff.
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I'm not disputing that certain super foods are just marketing but I would also say that almost no food is healthy when consumed in excess.
"Regular consumption of coconut oil may raise cholesterol levels and is high in saturated fats". How regular are we talking about? Every day? Every week? What amount of oil? A few ml or 3L? And what kind of cholesterol are we talking about here? The good one or the bad one?
Coconut oil may well be a nutritious, healthy oil when eaten sensibly, just like eating nuts is very good for you but you don't want to eat too much at once because they are very high in calories.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429773/
Not exactly a smoking gun, the study found that maybe it increased HDL levels very slightly.