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'Coconut Is Pure Poison' (Harvard Professor)
Business Insider ^ | August 20, 2018 | Valentina Resetarits

Posted on 08/22/2018 11:27:29 AM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer

‘…During the lecture, titled "Coconut Oil and other Nutritional Errors," Karin Michels has made herself very clear with regard to dietary recommendations, and underlined that coconut oil is not healthy. Its superfood status had already come under scrutiny last year after the American Heart Association (AHA) updated its guidelines, which recommended that people avoid the saturated fatty acids found in coconut oil. Michels went a step further than to recommend avoiding the foodstuff, saying "coconut oil is pure poison" and "is one of the worst foods you can eat." There's no study showing significant health benefits to coconut-oil consumption. And, according to Michels, coconut oil is more dangerous than lard because it almost exclusively contains saturated fatty acids, ones that can clog the coronary arteries. You can identify fats that contain large quantities of saturated fatty acids by checking to see whether they remain solid at room temperature, as is the case with butter or lard…’

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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Excellent!


121 posted on 08/22/2018 2:07:32 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: 1FreeAmerican

True, but coconut water isn’t coconut oil. The oil is a semi solid at room temperature.


122 posted on 08/22/2018 2:18:18 PM PDT by Pelham (Yankeefa, cleansing America one statue at a time.)
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To: All
Happy_Hour_Ping
123 posted on 08/22/2018 2:27:24 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: Verbosus

Exactly as you say, but more specifically, those who entice us to eat coconut are using it as an tool to perpetrate their evil plans to control the whole wide world.


124 posted on 08/22/2018 2:31:15 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer
Saturated fatty acids do not "clog" arteries. What they do is cause inflammation to the sensitive tissues that line the body's 60,000-mile-long network of arteries, veins and capillaries. When inflammation occurs, the body's natural defense mechanism releases cholesterol to coat the affected area. This coating restricts blood flow, breaks off and causes a multitude of problems; including impotence. The solution is to reduce the inflammation. The name, Saturated Fatty Acids offers a clue: "Acids." It tells you that it is something to avoid. However, there are foods that people like that are too good to avoid. Why not have a remedy that reduces the inflammation or counters it? Then we can eat our popcorn cooked in Coconut Oil with confidence we are protection ourselves as much as seat belts protect us.

I made a list that summarizes foods to avoid that have inflammatory effects. Hold on to your seat belts:

1. Foods fried in vegetable oil: Vegetable oil contains advanced glycation end product which causes inflammation.

2. Oils with Excess Omega 6: Omega 6 fatty acids as they break down transform into toxic prostaglandins and other proteins that promote inflammation.

3. Meat from Animals That Eat Grains: Animals that feed on grains need antibiotics to sustain them. These antibiotics in low levels in the human body can develop bacterial attacks on the network's lining more difficult for the immune system to eliminate. Also, the high content of saturated fatty acids in meat also causes inflammation due to their high levels of the triglycerides of palmitic and stearic acids. Again, the word "acids" is the key.

4. Highly Refined Flours: Due to the nature of their ingestion into the bloodstream, such flours cause a spike in insulin release which causes inflammation. Such flours contain Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) which promotes fibrosis.

5. Sugar: Produces cytokines which are a major inflammatory. Also, it induces a insulin spike which, like highly refine flour, produces inflammation.

6. Alcohol: The high content of sugar in alcohol is one of the main causes of inflammation. A major problem for alcohol is its role in the inflammation of the liver.

7. Dairy Products: The Lactose and Casein present in abundance in dairy products are not easily digested by most humans. These proteins can result in chronic inflammation.

8. Trans Fat: Any product--margarine--that has the description “hydrogenated” on them have trans fat in them. The tumor necrosis factor alpha and Interleukin 6 (IL-6) are the culprits. Both regulate the inflammation response through anti-inflammatory myokines and pro-inflammatory cytokine. When put out of balance, they result in inflammation.

9. Breads: Commercial bread is rushed through the fermentation process causing reduced levels of gluten and starch to be produced by the fermentation process. This causes problems in digestion which increases the inflammation of the gut. This inflammation, in my opinion, may also affect the circulatory system.

10. Processed Meats: The culprit is Advanced glycation end products (AGEs). A receptor (biochemistry) nicknamed RAGE, from receptor for advanced glycation end products, is found on many cells, including those in the circulatory system. activation of the nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) following AGE binding. NF-κB controls several genes which are involved in inflammation. The processing process of meats creates proteins or lipids that become glycated as a result of exposure to sugars. The pasteurization and drying processes of these meats cause AGEs to form.

11. Additives: Many of the ice creams and almost all the candies you eat have artificial additives in them. Since these ingredients are artificial, your body does not have a special function to digest them. Your body’s natural response to artificial coloring and other additives is to fight them, which results in inflammation.

12. Corn Syrup: Other names in product ingredients are High fructose corn syrup, Maize, dahlia syrup, and glucose syrup. The same effects of sugar in the insulin response creates inflammation.

13. Iodized Salt: The sodium in salt causes your blood’s volume to increase in a minute amount. When your blood expands, the veins expand--even in a minute amount--worsening any inflammation in the circulatory system.

14. Peanuts: The presence of molds on peanuts causes the body's immune system to respond to these allergens. This immune response causes inflammation.

15. Seitan: When wheat proteins undergoes an extreme texturizing process to create a non-animal meat substitute, that process creates Seitans (Wheat gluten). Seitans causes inflammation just like red meat.

16. Agave: A substitute for sugar. Agave has nearly double the amount of fructose in it than white sugar. The more agave you take, the more damage you do to your liver as well as inflammation to the circulatory system.

17. Packed Juices: The high temperature pasteurization process these juices undergo, kills even the good bacteria in the juice and its natural nutritional content. All you get is sugar. Sugar = inflammation from the insulin response.

Juices that have patulin in them indicate that poor quality fruits have been used to make them.

Juice with the label ‘no preservatives’ are the ones from which oxygen has been removed. This de-oxygenization process lowers the quality of the fruits and vegetables used to make them.

Because the juice no longer has the natural taste of the natural juice, artificial flavors (additives) and sugar are added, both of which are not good as explained above.

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The above list involves almost the entire food supply in the American diet. I found excellent sources for the above information which I have enjoyed sharing with my FRiends. As you can see, it is such an extensive list, it would be hard to create a diet that is without inflammatory ingredients. How science can minimize the inflammatory reaction in the circulatory system should be the direction we should go rather than sticking with the old science of avoidance.

125 posted on 08/22/2018 2:31:43 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Bigg Red
“S’mores” is the correct spelling. Probably a playful contraction of “I want some more”.

It looks well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%27more

The text indicates that the treat was already popular with both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. In 1927, a recipe for "Some More" was published in Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts.[5]

The contracted term "s'mores" appears in conjunction with the recipe in a 1938 publication aimed at summer camps.[4] A 1956 recipe uses the name "S'Mores", and lists the ingredients as "a sandwich of two graham crackers, toasted marshmallow and ​1⁄2 chocolate bar". A 1957 Betty Crocker cookbook contains a similar recipe under the name of "s'mores".

This could almost be a bit from Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine.
126 posted on 08/22/2018 2:39:09 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: jonrick46

Thanks...bookmarked


127 posted on 08/22/2018 2:40:53 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: higgmeister; Bigg Red

128 posted on 08/22/2018 2:41:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: katana

“Anybody remember where I put my machete?”

Wot - no katana?

https://i.imgur.com/pdqkKJj.mp4


129 posted on 08/22/2018 2:43:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: dfwgator
schmoe — noun, plural schmoes. Slang.
a foolish, boring, or stupid person; a jerk.
130 posted on 08/22/2018 2:45:19 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Steely Tom

Any food I don’t like is poison.
*************
Actually all food is poison. Proof? Consuming food leads eventually to death. Actuall breathing leads to death eventually. Water can kill.

George Orwell Quote:

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue and street building renamed, every date altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has been stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

The Party’s mouthpiece (MSM) has spoken.


131 posted on 08/22/2018 2:52:03 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: Grampa Dave

Does the coconut oil in the sliders attract ants? That would be a concern where I live. Have to spray all the front walks, stoops, porches and doorsills with Raid every spring.


132 posted on 08/22/2018 3:20:02 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: dfwgator
What if you put the lime in it?

You drink it all up.

133 posted on 08/22/2018 3:23:16 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Nifster

*** “I love sno balls” ***

The taste not the Texture ....


134 posted on 08/22/2018 3:26:59 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: ETL

135 posted on 08/22/2018 3:29:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer
Harry Nilsson - ‘Lime In The Coconut’ (Peaked At #8 On Billboard Hot 100 In 1971)

Well, it still gets played often in this house. Along with the rest of the album, Nilsson Schmillson.

136 posted on 08/22/2018 3:31:59 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: Albion Wilde

No ant attacks yet.


137 posted on 08/22/2018 3:36:37 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Out of about 6 million people in the DC area, Trump is the only one not colluding with anyone!!!)
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To: Smittie
It took 82 responses before a Gilligan’s Island reference was posted? I can’t believe it...

And 136 before the coconut shell bra in the musical South Pacific...


138 posted on 08/22/2018 3:41:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: higgmeister

:)


139 posted on 08/22/2018 3:46:41 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The USA news industry, the MSM-13, takes a machete to the truth. {h/t TigersEye})
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To: jonrick46

That’s it ... only thing left to eat that won’t kill me is Bugs!

Akuna Matata

(Music and Indigenous African Yell) now “I Roar” up on the Cliff

Then I wake up and eat eggs fried in bacon grease with potatoes and a cup of coffee


140 posted on 08/22/2018 3:46:49 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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