Efficacy and role of coconut oil

Oct 24
19:14

2013

David Yvon

David Yvon

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Coconut oil is known as the world's healthiest cooking oil. It protects the skin from sunlight damage, so often used as a beauty care product. Filipino called coconut oil as "the pharmacy in a bottle". Since ancient times, India also has been using coconut oil as a medicine.

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Coconut oil is rich in more than 50% of lauric acid,Efficacy and role of coconut oil Articles a substance that only presents in milk and a few of foods in nature. Coconut oil is totally good for human body, it is the healthiest fat. While the lauric acid is one of medium chain fatty acids, easily broken down and absorbed, does not accumulate in the body, and quite stable, uneasy to good bad. Experts in coconut Research and Development Center said that medium chain fatty acid is a very powerful weapon, which can destroy many viruses’ lipid outer layer, including herpes, HIV (ie, AIDS), influenza virus, SARS and so on.

 

The main component of coconut oil is lauric acid (containing about 50%), it is also the main component of milk fat. Lauric acid condensation with diethanolamine can be generated Coconutt Diethanol Amide, it is an indispensable raw material of various cosmetics. Lauric acid can improve the body's immune system, has a strong lethal on the body bacteria, viruses, even the gastrointestinal tract parasites, suitable for children, elderly, frail and vulnerable immune deficiency people consumption. Coconut oil can reduce cholesterol ratio, do not increase the body metabolism load, can prevent heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases. Coconut oil can help improve insulin sensitivity, make the cell becoming relatively easy to react and reducing antagonistic, to help prevent high blood pressure, even lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attack. Meanwhile, lauric acid will not be accumulated in the vessel wall to cause atherosclerosis, so that reduce vascular diseases.

 

Coconut oil can be used for beauty and anti-aging. Cosmetic raw material suppliers found that it has a strong antioxidant capacity, can help the body preventing the production of free radicals. Taken orally or topical used can moisturize the skin, adjust the sebaceous glands, improve dry skin, eliminate wrinkles, acne and dandruff. For sensitive skin, coconut oil can enhance the skin adaptability, soothing lips cracked, sunburn, frostbite, diaper rash and gingivitis. It also can be instead of skin cleansing oil or used as face oil, topical used can protect the skin from UV damage.

 

Compared with other edible oil, coconut oil is easier to hydrolyze, easily digested and absorbed, and more suitable for digestive disorders and weak human consumption. Cholecystectomy, gallstones, cholecystitis, pancreatitis patients were not suitable for eating a variety of oils which containing long-chain fatty acids, but they can eat coconut oil.

 

Coconut oil can improve metabolism, have the function of anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-cancer, activated thyroid, also have the effect of maintaining energy levels, stabilizing blood sugar, making mental clarity, emotional stability, etc. For sunburn, eczema, insect bites, skin roughness, skin cancer also have a therapeutic effect.

 

Coconut oil can help obese people become healthy and slimming, do not need to break down by lipase, easy to be used as energy combustion conversion. Whether fish oil, beef tallow, lard, butter, and other vegetable oils, including sunflower oil, peanut oil, olive oil, etc. are the long chain oil, have relatively long molecular structure, is not easy to burn and decomposition in the body. While coconut oil is a medium-chain fatty acid, which is easier to burn, help to increase calorie burning rate, so that helpful for weight-loss.

 

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