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Curry Chat => Talk About Anything Other Than Curry => Topic started by: Peripatetic Phil on August 23, 2018, 08:25 AM
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Sigh. And I'd just started using it for my curries. Source here (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/aug/22/coconut-oil-is-pure-poison-says-harvard-professor).
** Phil.
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Yes, sigh indeed Phil. I thought it was OK too and use it mainly for stir-fries which I find helpful with weight control. Thanks for putting the
link in. Back to the drawing board then!
Bob
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Well, I fully expect that a non-Harvard professor will say exactly the opposite in a week or two, so I don't propose to stop using it immediately !
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The high fat / cholesterol / heart disease hypothesis is not so cut and dry - but its useful for selling statins. Check out Dr Malcolm Kendrick amongst others who delve into the data used to justify these claims but come to different conclusions.
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Thank you VT. I like his approach (https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/about/). (This ... is my best effort at providing some balance to the increasingly strident healthcare lobby that seems intent on scaring everyone about almost everything. Is there a foodstuff that is safe to eat anymore? Is there any activity that does not cause cancer or heart disease?)
Clearly a man after my own heart
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Hi, just curious Phil, as a retired fitness Instructor are you overweight with your diet or do you jog everywhere to keep yourself nice and trim? lol
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I'm 71 years of age, 6' tall, about 12 stone in weight. I cycle (lightweight, on-road) occasionally, but that's the only real exercise I take, lawn-mowing excepted, although I used to play table-tennis once or twice a week and ride horses. I also frequently eat two or three 38 gm tubes of Smarties a day ...
** Phil.
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Everything in moderation I say!
There's always a new bandwagon to jump on and somebody wanting to chime in on the latest health food fad. It happened with matcha, honey, coconut oil, acai, turmeric etc. etc. etc.
Reminds me of the headlines about toast and tomatoes giving people cancer! :o
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anything coconut - especially in curries is too sweet for me
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This has hit the press out here as well. Some millennials may possibly go back to bacon and egg rolls with cheese and barbecue sauce, but most won't be in any rush. My 20 year old daughter asked me to buy some coconut oil last year, so I did and it remains mostly unused in the pantry. I have used some in an occasional curry. It would appear that every other week there is a new claim about what some food is doing to you. FODMAP, Nightshades, etc. Imagine curry without Chilli or tomato.
I live without coconut oil but I wonder how this "Poison" claim reconciles with the Pacific Islanders who use all of the coconut in just about anything they eat.
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Ill stick with my 30g coconut oil a day. Along with slabs of grass fed butter, lard and anything else fatty and good for you LOL
Fake news. As someone that works out daily and is passionate about nutrition and health i am not scared.
Experts in this field putting out study after study on how benifical high saturated fats are have me more convinced. Plus i get full blood screenings done after every training phase (6 weeks) and see no horror in the results.
I have a high fat low carb diet.
I eat carbs only post workout when my blood sugar has naturally been spiked. Outside of that i keep my blood as level as possible and feel great for it.
I guess it all depends on who you want to believe and how deep you are willing to dig for the answers.
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You got me on board at slabs of grass fed butter.
One of my all time favourite foods is really well done fatty (really fatty) salted and grilled (broiled) lamb loin chops. When that little curled up tail and the side covering fat is cooked to crisp there is not much that's better imho. Fortunately for me, but to my wife's horror, everybody else in my family cuts it off and discards it. Mind you, it is dreadful eaten cold.