How Coconut Oil Can Benefit Your Health

How Coconut Oil Can Benefit Your Health
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Joseph Mercola
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While more than 2,000 studies have been performed on coconut oil, demonstrating a wide range of benefits, it continues to be wrongfully vilified, mainly because 90 percent of its fat content is saturated. However, saturated fats, and most particularly coconut oil, are an important part of the human diet.

If you have bought into the media hype that saturated fats are unhealthy and will raise your risk of heart disease, it may be time to reconsider your position.

Joseph Mercola
Joseph Mercola
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Dr. Joseph Mercola is the founder of Mercola.com. An osteopathic physician, best-selling author, and recipient of multiple awards in the field of natural health, his primary vision is to change the modern health paradigm by providing people with a valuable resource to help them take control of their health.
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