{"id":395,"date":"2013-11-15T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2013-11-15T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:44:15","slug":"coconut_oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/coconut_oil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Health Benefits of Adding Coconut Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The many health benefits of adding coconut oil<\/p>\n<p>By Terrence Thomas<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coconut oil is an extremely health-giving oil.\u00a0 It maintains it\u2019s molecular stability when you cook with it. In other words, at high temperatures the oil will remain stable and not become toxic to the body like other oils.\u00a0 For instance if you use olive oil and heat it above medium to medium-high, the fat becomes rancid and you actually denature the fat and it becomes toxic.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from it\u2019s stability, coconut oil has many other wonderful health building qualities, such as being anti-viral, anti-parasitic, acts as an antihistamine, anti-inflammatory, and coconut oil even increases metabolic rate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconut_oil.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-396\" alt=\"coconut_oil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconut_oil.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconut_oil.png 400w, https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconut_oil-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you look at a jar of coconut oil, you will notice the contents can transition depending on the room temperature. If it\u2019s colder, the coconut oil will become more solid. If the room temperature gets warmer, it\u2019ll become more of a liquid. At the sight of coconut oil, many people a psychosomatic think that because the oil is thick (in its solid state it is unhealthy or has the dreaded artery clogging effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What most people don\u2019t realize is that what clogs arteries is actually the unsaturated fats; the lipid peroxides and the toxins that are created in the body.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So give coconut oil a shot. I\u2019d start with maybe two or three tablespoons a day. Or try cooking some of your protein in it and just notice how delicious it tastes how long the meat stays edible without spoiling after you\u2019ve cooked it in coconut oil.###<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The many health benefits of adding coconut oil By Terrence Thomas &nbsp; Coconut oil is an extremely health-giving oil.\u00a0 It maintains it\u2019s molecular stability when you cook with it. In other words, at high temperatures the oil will remain stable and not become toxic to the body like other oils.\u00a0 For instance if you use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.physicalexcellence.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}