Back to the 60’s…
In early 1960’s, the
United States kept spreading the words that coconut oil was a
dangerous oil. Coconut oil was positioned as a very dangerous
saturated fat that could risk human’s health.
A certain party even
advised the American Heart Association to cross virgin
coconut oil out of the diet list.
It did not
end here. In 1984 the National Cholesterol Education Program
made a statement that coconut oil was to be avoided. On June 3rd,
1987 The New York Times wrote that even though it was cheap,
but imported coconut oil from Indonesia and Malaysia could block the
blood vessel –which means bad for health.
More to that, the
American Soybean Association ran a campaign against tropical oil
and -this of course- included coconut oil. This association pushed
the FDA (Food and Drugs Association) to label all kinds of
packaging of coconut oil with "Tropical Oil".
In 1989 the American
Soybean Association held a press conference in Washington DC and
stated that consumers had to avoid the using of coconut oil and
coconut.
A year later, Mendis and
Kumarasunderam ran a research on the use of coconut oil and soybean
oil. The conclusion?
Coconut oil encourages
the increase of bad cholesterol and soybean oil reduces unnecessary
lipo-proteins…
It was in year 1992, when
the truth of virgin coconut oil came up to the surface and was
acknowledged by the public. It was Kaunitz and Dayrit who found an
extraordinary data on the matter.
Many studies after that all lead to a conclusion
that virgin coconut oil is very beneficial for health improvement.
