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Originally Posted by Joeschmoe  Sugar is also a nutrient, a macro nutrient called carbohydrate. How is one isolated nutrient better than another? I say better to get them all in whole food. Oil is by definition a processed food.
Why not just eat coconut if you think the oil would be good for you? The oil is in there, along with all the other micro nutrients. |
I do eat it whole when I get it, but one of the reasons I mix a bit of coconut oil in some food (like spouted lentils/beans/grains)is because I think some of vitamins are oil soluble and therefore need to be eaten with some oil to be absorbed properly.. (do you think that's true?)
also, according to "The Thrive Diet" by Brenton Braizer coconut oil actually improves the untilitation of oils by getting you body used to burning oils as a source of alternative energy instead of relaying only on carbohydrates (that energy source can deflated pretty quickly)..