In addition, coconut oil has been know to put up some mechanisms in place to help you reduce your appetite, and because it contains a lot of lauric acid, it speeds up the body's thermogenic rate--that is, how fast you burn calories. Lauric acid is the key to many of the benefits in coconut milk. However, many people are not familiar with Lauric acid, but the body’s most abundant source of it is in breast milk, with which it shares health giving properties.
There is also evidence that coconut oil can accelerate fat-burning activities by stimulating the thyroid gland, which controls all of the body's metabolic activities. Current data suggest that coconut oil raises the body's basal metabolic rate, which is how well you burn calories at rest, while improving overall metabolism. The bottom line here is that when you take MCTs instead of long-chain triglycerides, you turn into a fat-burning machine and store a lot less fat.
Coconut oil has fewer calories than most other fats and oils. So you don't have to use as much oil as you would when cooking with other oils. Coconut oil does have roughly 120 calories in a tablespoon, so the key to losing weight using coconut oil may be in substituting it in place of other oils, not in addition. But again, it comes down to how well your body utilizes the benefits of the coconut oil. If you have a poorly running metabolism and digestion system, the benefits of taking coconut may be muted anyway.
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