Eldam, thanks to the internet, it would take only a few key-strokes to find expert opinion - with or without peer reviewed clinical studies - and proponents on either side of the debate of merits of anything we put in or on our bodies .
So far in my own limited research, and that of a family member recovering from a visit from our friend "C", I've found nothing about coconut oil to cause worry in the quantities that I consume. Also works great as skin moisturizer, deodorant and for sunburn relief, so I'm told by my daughter and son in law who live in Bermuda and partake in regular triathlon events. As it melts at body temperature, it may have other applications as well, but there's a limit to their sharing.
So far in my own limited research, and that of a family member recovering from a visit from our friend "C", I've found nothing about coconut oil to cause worry in the quantities that I consume. Also works great as skin moisturizer, deodorant and for sunburn relief, so I'm told by my daughter and son in law who live in Bermuda and partake in regular triathlon events. As it melts at body temperature, it may have other applications as well, but there's a limit to their sharing.
1981 in Spain some street vendors sold industrial colza oil as olive oil.
600 people died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_oil_syndrome
Chrisb-I've not heard anything detrimental either. Of course the miracle fat as labeled by some food ideologies it isn't, but certainly not bad in moderate amounts.
That said, I just don't really do coconut, so the smell isn't my favorite. That's my problem though.
Oh, and don't trust us triathletes: we're a nutty bunch.
That said, I just don't really do coconut, so the smell isn't my favorite. That's my problem though.
Oh, and don't trust us triathletes: we're a nutty bunch.
Nothing is bad in small quantities (even Internet) , but here we have a population in Pacific who uses a lot coconut oïl... a lot of problem of hearth and strokes diseases... But you know, we are all gona die ! (don't walk Under coconuts trees !) !
As for the skin there is certainly better oils... while I don' care I'm a wooky ! My family will be continue with Colza, olive oils and some not talked here, rasta...
As for the skin there is certainly better oils... while I don' care I'm a wooky ! My family will be continue with Colza, olive oils and some not talked here, rasta...
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Used in margarine (and animals, e.g. for horse coat rubbing)
Lots cheaper than avocado oil
We will need to make a tunnel direct to Scotland.... (direct to the Loch ?)
btw the existing one is always blocked !
PS :
PS : at London the guys of the City are looking again The Prisonner with Patrick Mac Gohan who is attacked by huge white eggs semi cooked ! How to escape to Switzerland !
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Didn't know that about the flavorless, "why did you buy THAT?!"-light olive oil.
Didn't know that about the flavorless, "why did you buy THAT?!"-light olive oil.
The cowboys inb the City will be fine whatever.
Thanks to the Cayman Islands none of them are paying any tax.
That's how Mr Cameron could afford to send his son Dave to Eton.
My wife was a med tech in a former life and she called me into the room to see part of an episode of "Househunters International". There was a guy couple looking to rent in Brussels for around $3300 US a month and one of the kitchens appeared to have installed an autoclave to steam mussels. I never saw such a thing, it had a round door that locked, but I would not be able to tell if it was some high end cookware or actually a re-purposed autoclave.
Never made it here, though I do miss sitting at a cafe in Antwerp with a bucket of moules and a glass of Kriek.
Took me a while but I found locally a very good source of leaf fat and make my own lard. It comes from heritage pork (Berkshire or Tamworth) raised locally without hormones and other bad stuff. Did some reading, it actually isn't so bad for health. They say the fat composition is better than regular pork fat, even close to olive oil; yet I don't use it often. Then there's the whole debate now that it was sugar and refined carbs that were really the evil factor in the making of cardio-vascular disease, and that the low-fat diet was actually wrong. You people in the EU and USA are lucky punks because you have access to the Mangalitsa pork, whose fat is apparently similar in composition to salmon fat, hence actually healthy, and apparently very tasty. Alas, that breed does not exist in Canada.
Famous pastry chefs indeed swear by leaf lard. At some point it was very difficult to find leaf lard and fat because the top chefs were getting it all. Food for thought... or the arteries.