It looks like Nascy is a qualified researcher in cooking oils.
Hoever, I totally disagree with his assessment of coconut oil on purely
practical basis.
I have said this before and I am saying it again for the benefit of Nascy
and others who probaly have faith is the hydrogenated cooking oils we have
in our supermarkets whose shell life is prolonged due to hydrogenation
process.
That the Germans invented the gas chambers (Holocaust) where 6 million Jews
were gassed by Hitler.
And he would have gassed more if he was not defeated.
That Hydrogenation process, was again, invented by a German, this time to
gas the whole world, not only the remainder of Jews.
:-)
TV advertisements show us that one brand of hydrogenated oil is better than
the other. But these are all killers par excellence.
However, coconut oil as we have know from our primitive days is the dried
copra oil which is heavily oxidized already by copra drying. And any heavily
oxidized matter is bad for health (free radicals infested). Therefore copra
coconut oil could have been dangerous if consumed after a period of time
versus immediately say within a week or so.
Now, there is Virgin Coconut oil available which is extracted from fresh
coconut and without drying or oxidation. This is even superior to olive oil
which is considered the best in oils where the coconut oil will not break-up
at high temperatures while the olive oil cannot withstand high temperatures
ex. frying.
(that is why olive oil is consumed in salads)
Why am I saying this?
Because, I have stopped using anything hydrogenated, even dalda ghee,
altogether. Instead, I am using (my household) ONLY virgin coconut oil. I
even sip spoonfuls of it during the day and use it liberally for cooking.
I have been diagnosed ( 2 years back or so) as having totally clogged
cardiovascular system thro' angiography at Apolo, Margao ( they attribute
this to my earlier long term heavy smoking - 4 packs of 20's a day which I
have given up completely since 1984 i.e. 26 years). It is so bad that I
cannot even go for any sort of by-pass surgery.
I have been off Ecoprin and Acorex which drugs I am supposed to take as long
as I live, on daily basis since a year and a half. I found out that my
homocysteine levels shot up to 27 where normal is 12-15, which is a sure
heart attach situation. I even had cardiac arrest but I am lucky to have
survived it.
So, Nascy, there you are.
I am advertising, no not virgin coconut oil, but that coconut oil is not all
that bad in front of hydrogenated oils.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nascy Caldeira" <nascy...@yahoo.com.au>
To: " estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Coconut Oil vs Olive Oil
Irrespective of all these articles on Coconut Oil; I tell you from reading
and from experience that Coconut Oil is full of bad Cholesterol. So it
should be avoided if possible, or at least the quantity used should be
sparing.
Our old people were more healthy internally than we are today. Their systems
could digest and cope with a lot of the bad in food; But today is different;
there is pollution and comtamination of all sorts; so the need to avoid the
avoidable.
Nascimento.
--- On Thu, 2/12/10, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
With regard to the post from Con
Menezes with the US link, a few stray
thoughts and observations:
Who would have thought that coconut oil would be good for
health, even for
diabetes, slowing down the absorption of sugar.
A long time ago, too long it seems, Goans reveled in the
use of coconut oil,
They used it for sweets, for making curries and double
whammy - for frying
pork. There was nothing to beat the aroma of a freshly
butchered piglet out
in the yard behind the house, with a small portion of the
meat being diced
and fried immediately in coconut oil and served to the
small crowd watching
the proceedings. Too cruel and primitive for tastes now,
but no regret for
those times either.
No one told all this to the older folk of older times who
lived, breathed
and ate everything cooked, fried and baked in the local
coconut oil. Those
in the snob health fad circle refused to concede that these
folk lived
longer because they even ate raw coconuts. Conveniently it
was said that the
walk to the Margao market due to the caminaoes coming full
from the Borim
bridge was solely responsible for long lives. Even despite
the bad effects
of coconut oil.
Now we have come full circle. The people in Goa have enough
money to buy
olive oil. They will refuse to go back to coconut oil even
if it is
healthier. Giving new meaning to the old phrase "more money
means worse
health". And all this without assigning any blame to even
the more expensive
brands of Indian Made Foreign Liquor - an oxymoron par
excellence.
Roland
Toronto
