A fat source that has a positive effect on the thyroid, essential-fatty acids, myelin formation, and the immune system is coconut oil. According to experts, it should be “dosed” by starting with one teaspoon per day and working your way up to three tablespoons daily.

I know what you are thinking - Coconut oil? That’s saturated fat!  My cholesterol is already high as it is. So I’ll have a healthy thyroid, but I’ll die of a heart attack.

 ”Saturated fats and cholesterol are not the cause of coronary heart disease. That myth is the greatest scientific deception of this century, perhaps of any century.”
-Dr George V. Mann, M.D.
No one thought a thing of eating saturated fat before the 1920’s. Of course, at that time, there were no margarine tubs or hydrogenated vegetable oils. People used butter and lard because that is what they had on hand. However, while eating all of that saturated fat, there were far fewer deaths from heart disease then today. In 1914, Harvard Medical School’s Dr Richard Cabot published an analysis of 600 cases of heart disease.  The most common cause of heart disease at that time was rheumatic fever.

“It’s just frightening what happens to these fats that people are taking, like the safflower oil and others. We’re speaking now of the polyunsaturated oils, which cause hardening of the arteries. They will lower cholesterol. But they lower cholesterol by driving it into the blood vessels. You’ll get more hardening of the arteries with unsaturated fats than with saturated animal fats.”
-Dr Ross Hume Hall, Professor Emeritus, McMaster University

By 1936, the introduction of “healthy” vegetable oils had changed the situation dramatically. The clogging type of heart disease we know today had become the most common. Also, a new kind of heart attack (Myocardial Infarction) with sudden chest pain followed by death also appeared on the scene. According to the British medical journal, The Lancet, this type of heart attack was almost unknown before 1926.

Researches at the Wynn Institute for Metabolic Research in London examined the composition of human artery plaques. Their study found that the artery clogging fats in those who died from heart disease were composed of 26% saturated fat and 74% polyunsaturated fatty acids – the same supposedly “healthy” fats found in vegetable oils.

“For a modern disease to be related to an old-fashioned food is one of the most ludicrous things I ever heard in my life.”
-Dr T. L. Cleave, Former Director of Medical Research at the Royal Navy School in Britain.
In a study published in 1981, South Pacific islanders were examined over a period of time starting in the 1960s. This was before western foods were prevalent in their diets. Instead, up to 60% of their caloric intake came from the saturated fat of coconut oil. The study found the people were relatively free from modern diseases of western cultures, including obesity and heart disease.

Note: Never use refined or hydrogenated coconut oils. Use only extra virgin or virgin coconut oil.

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
-Mark Twain

I realize that you are probably still skeptical because we have been told for the last fifty years how dangerous saturated fat is. I highly encourage you to read the book The Cholesterol Conspiracy, co-authored by Dr. Edward R. Pinkney, MD, former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Also, visit http://www.howlingatthemoon.com/docs/YHARxtr.htm, which provided much of the information on saturated fat and cholesterol used in this book.

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