Coconut oil is the new kid on the block when it comes to healthy fats.
It’s also one of the most versatile oils out there, perfect to condition your skin and hair, good in coffee, and perfect to saute vegetables or cook eggs. You can even use it to get rid of bad gut bacteria, clean your teeth, make your own lip balm, and polish your furniture. Talk about a maverick ingredient.
What makes coconut oil so unique is the fact that it’s made up of medium-chain fatty acids that are extremely heart healthy and easy to absorb into cells due to their small size. It’s also what gives coconut oil its ability to form a solid at room temperature, but melt when it hits your mouth or your skin.
While coconut oil has all sorts of different health benefits from lowering cholesterol and protecting your heart, to improving digestion, reducing inflammation and even improving brain function, it’s also a wonderful weight loss aid. Who would have thought that eating pure fat in the form of coconut oil, can help speed up body fat loss? It seems to be particularly helpful in melting away the dangerous belly fat.
Coconut oil is a strong appetite suppressant. Eating a little throughout the day will help you feel full and satisfied sooner. This makes it much easier to avoid giving in to cravings or over eating. That alone will help you lose those extra pounds, but it gets even better.
Those medium-chain fatty acids I told you about earlier, help the body use energy reserves more easily and even helps speed up the process of breaking down body fat. In other words, eating coconut oil will make it easier for your body to burn its own fat.
To prime the body for fat loss, you want to consume some coconut oil as early in the day as possible. Try adding a teaspoon of it to your first cup of coffee in the morning. It will melt right in and help you start to your day off right. From there, add a little here and there while you’re cooking food. You can saute food in coconut oil, or use it like a finish oil similar to using butter or olive oil.
Give coconut oil a try and see if it doesn’t help you stick to your diet and lose those extra pounds. Along the way, you’ll get to benefit from the many other health benefits this oil has to offer.
