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Old 03-02-2011, 05:21 PM   #1
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Default Coconut oil is GOOD for you

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Next thing you know they will be saying that you should start smoking cigarettes.

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The last time I checked, coconut oil was supposed to be the devil himself in liquid form, with more poisonous artery-clogging, cholesterol-raising, heart-attack-causing saturated fat than butter, lard or beef tallow.
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So given all this greasy baggage, what was coconut oil doing in a health food store? In fact, it has recently become the darling of the natural-foods world. Annual sales growth at Whole Foods “has been in the high double digits for the last five years,”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/di...me&ref=general
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Old 03-03-2011, 01:16 AM   #2
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I was reading something the other day where they mentioned coconut oil as a health food, and I wrote it off at the time as totally misinformed. It looks like I was the one who was misinformed after all.
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Old 03-03-2011, 07:26 AM   #3
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And heavy promotion has nothing to do with high profit margins .
This all about fake medicine shops acting for the public benefit ....rrrright .


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And maybe it isn’t so bad for you after all.”
Hardly a ringing endorsement from the scientists .
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Old 03-03-2011, 01:57 PM   #4
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Semi -related

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