The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Coconut oil is going to kill us, or maybe not.

I was beginning to rest on my laurels. Coconut oil is going to kill us, or maybe not.

I was beginning to rest on my laurels.

It had been months since the inbox had flooded with upset readers asking me to address the latest episode of the conventional establishments' attack on healthy food and living.

Until last week, when people started freaking out about the American Heart Association's attack on coconut oil. As USA Today put it, coconut oil isn't healthy. It's never been healthy.

I was surprised. While I get most of my scientific references from USA Today, the work cited section of my upcoming keto book

is just a single link to USA Today.com. And they've never let me down in the past. I didn't know

what to make of their coconut oil claims. Had I entered an alternate timeline? Did the Tokalau people of

the South Pacific obtain 50% of their calories from poufal-laden soybean oil and not saturated fat derived from coconuts?

Did the Ketavans thrive on an admittedly high-carb diet, not only supplementing it with coconut cream and meat, but by dousing their yams and fish and margarine shipped in from across the ocean. I did some digging, revisited some other sources I've used in the past.

Turns out I wasn't crazy. Everything was the same.

The Tokalau people really did show zero signs of heart disease, despite eating a 50% coconut fat diet.

They really did start getting fat and diabetic heart

diseased only after the introduction of wheat, sugar, and vegetable oils. And the Ketavans did eat a

high coconut oil, high carb diet, and thrived while doing it. I could probably stop this post here.

I mean, 50% of calories from coconut oil and pristine health is about as resounding a debunking of the AHA's position you could produce.

When it boils down to it, the AHA's condemnation of coconut oil is just another salvo in their feudal war against saturated fat consumption.

They focus only on the tendency of coconut oil to increase LDL, and ignore everything else it does,

even referring to coconut oil's lack of offsetting favorable effects.

LDL has something to do with heart disease.

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