It sounds an outrageous claim that by eating large quantities of a saturated fat, one can in fact lose weight. However, when that fat is Coconut Oil, experiments on animals and some human studies have shown that may be the case.
Coconut oil was trialled in the 1940s for putting weight on animals by farmers, but it was unsuccessful and made them more active, lean= er and hungry. Then an antithyroid drug was used to fatten the animals, but unfortunately it was found that a side effect of the drug was that it was cancer-forming. It seemed also that it made consumers of the animals' meat contract hypothyroidism. The drug was replaced by soy beans= and corn feed, which had the desired effect of making the animals put on weight by consuming less food.
Since then experiments have taken place which have involved feeding animals with diets which had varying amounts and types of fats. Unsaturated oils were tried, coconut oil was tried, and numerous combinations of the two. By the time the animals died or were slaughtered, the ones fed on the most unsaturated oil were the fattest, and the coconut oil-fed livestock was the least obese. Their obesity was not (as you would expect) directly in relation to the total fat consumed in the diet. In other words, in whatever quantity it was consumed, coconut oil made them less fat than the unsaturated fats. The animals who ate a great deal of coconut oil were lean and active, the ones who ate just a little of the unsaturated fat were fat.
Coconut oil was trialled in the 1940s for putting weight on animals by farmers, but it was unsuccessful and made them more active, lean= er and hungry. Then an antithyroid drug was used to fatten the animals, but unfortunately it was found that a side effect of the drug was that it was cancer-forming. It seemed also that it made consumers of the animals' meat contract hypothyroidism. The drug was replaced by soy beans= and corn feed, which had the desired effect of making the animals put on weight by consuming less food.
Since then experiments have taken place which have involved feeding animals with diets which had varying amounts and types of fats. Unsaturated oils were tried, coconut oil was tried, and numerous combinations of the two. By the time the animals died or were slaughtered, the ones fed on the most unsaturated oil were the fattest, and the coconut oil-fed livestock was the least obese. Their obesity was not (as you would expect) directly in relation to the total fat consumed in the diet. In other words, in whatever quantity it was consumed, coconut oil made them less fat than the unsaturated fats. The animals who ate a great deal of coconut oil were lean and active, the ones who ate just a little of the unsaturated fat were fat.
