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Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

In 2008, a medical doctor in Florida, Dr. Mary Newport, published a case study she did on her husband who was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). She saw an almost total remission of her husband’s AD by giving him coconut oil.

She tried to get the word out to more people, and even attended the national Alzheimer’s Association meeting to try and share her findings.

However, the medical industrial complex was not interested, and they stonewalled Dr. Newport, and even hired guards to follow her around the conference to make sure she did not disseminate her study.

In 2012, the Christian Broadcast Network (CBN) did an interview with her, which soon went viral. See:

CBN Reports on Coconut Oil for Alzheimer’s

Interestingly, that report is no longer on the CBN website, but the video of the interview with Dr. Newport and her husband is still available:

This news spread so fast, that many other people who had family members with AD began to experiment with Coconut Oil, and the testimonies started pouring in.

The Alzheimer’s Association, which is nothing more than a front organization for the pharmaceutical industry to develop AD drugs, tried to warn their members against coconut oil, but it didn’t work, as it just elicited even more testimonials. See:

Alzheimer’s Association Warns Against Coconut Oil – Member Replies “Coconut Oil Gave us our Father Back!”

I also published dozens of testimonies that were sent to me during that time, which you can read here:

I was happy to see that Dr. Newport is still advocating for coconut oil, and exposing the lies of the USDA and the FDA who keep stating that coconut oil is bad for one’s health, and leads to heart disease, a theory that has been totally debunked by the science for decades now.

Dr. Newport just published a new study in the journal Nutrients, along with a well-known doctor in the Philippines:

Analysis of 26 Studies of the Impact of Coconut Oil on Lipid Parameters: Beyond Total and LDL Cholesterol

Abstract

Coconut oil (CNO) is often characterized as an “artery-clogging fat” because it is a predominantly saturated fat that ostensibly raises total cholesterol (TChol) and LDL cholesterol (LDL-C). Whereas previous analyses assessed CNO based on the relative effects on lipid parameters against other fats and oils, this analysis focuses on the effects of CNO itself. Here, we review the literature on CNO and analyze 984 lipid profile data sets from 26 CNO studies conducted over the past 40 years. This analysis shows considerable heterogeneity among CNO studies regarding participant selection, the amount consumed, and the study duration. The analysis reveals that, overall, CNO consumption gives variable TChol and LDL-C values, but that the HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C) values increase and triglycerides (TG) decrease. This holistic lipid assessment, together with the consideration of lipid ratios, shows that CNO does not pose a health risk for heart disease. Because the predominantly medium-chain fatty acid profile of CNO is significantly different from that of lard and palm oil, studies using these as reference materials do not apply to CNO. This paper concludes that the recommendation to avoid consuming coconut oil due to the risk of heart disease is not justified.

This is not even new research, as there are now literally hundreds of studies in the peer-reviewed medical literature that prove false the lipid theory of heart disease, which condemns saturated fats. You can find many of those studies here:

Abstracts from Peer Reviewed Literature on Coconut Oil and Derivatives

Polyunsaturated “Seed Oils” Have Replaced Saturated Fats in USDA Dietary Advice which has Destroyed the Health of Americans

“Seed oils” have been a hot topic in the media recently, as it is one of the issues that the new head of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has been addressing.

And while Mr. Kennedy is partially true in stating that seed oils have contributed to disease in Americans’ diets, we need to first define our terms, and define “seed oils.”

I am not sure how Mr. Kennedy is defining “seed oils,” since he seems to be lumping them all together as “bad.”

However, there are toxic seed oils, which are mainly the ones that have just recently entered the human food chain in modern times due to the development of “expeller-pressed” seed oil technology developed around WW II, and there are traditional seed oils that have nourished populations for thousands of years.

I have listed them in the graph above, and I have included oils that are both developed from the actual seeds, or the “fruits” around the seed, but in all of these cases if you drop the entire seed, such as an olive or a coconut, into fertile soil, it will grow into the plant it came from.

The list of safe seed oils that have nourished populations for thousands of years until modern “science” deemed them “unhealthy,” is shorter then the newer, toxic seed oils, because in ancient cultures people did not simply use “seed oils” as edible oils for cooking, but also animal fats, such as butter, beef tallow, and pork lard, to cook and prepare meals.

But most of these are also high in “saturated fats,” and even though the science is now more than abundantly clear that saturated fats are not only not bad, but actually healthy, the USDA and the FDA will probably never acknowledge this, because to do so would be to destroy decades of teaching that cholesterol is “bad” for people, and convict the pharmaceutical industry of fraud and mass murder, for selling so many cholesterol-lowering drugs for many years now.

Research on Saturated Fats

So if Mr. Kennedy is serious about righting this wrong, then I have a recommendation for him:

Dr. Mary Newport has spent years studying nutrition and diet, and she would be the perfect person to revise the USDA dietary recommendations, which for decades have HARMED the health of Americans, while making HUGE profits for Big Food and Big Pharma.

I myself have about a decade longer in studying nutrition and edible oils than Dr. Newport has, having first studied them while living in the Philippines in the late 1990s.

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