Benefits of Coconut Oil

Coconut is said to be one of the healthier, if not the healthiest, foods around. A lot of people do not agree for the reason that their countries do not grow coconut. All businessmen, medical people included, threatened by the coco business would promote anything against it to protect their own businesses. In fact, for centuries, they have fooled the public that coconut contains bad cholesterol. Likewise, government of any country would rather not import coconut to protect her national interests. It is actually a battle between money and health.

Recently, however, health enthusiasts have revealed, that coconut contains the good cholesterol that burns fat. Coconut, indeed, is healthy for the body. Below are some of the benefits of coconut according to BeWellBuzz.

  1. Antibacterial 
  2. Anticarcinogenic (prevents cancer cells from spreading)
  3. Antifungal 
  4. Anti-inflammatory
  5. Antimicrobial 
  6. Antioxidant 
  7. Antiretroviral (destroys HIV and HTLV-1)
  8. Antiparasitic 
  9. Anti-protozoa
  10. Antiviral 


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