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Is Coconut Milk Good for You?
This type of coconut milk is a good option for pouring into coffee ... in fatand saturated fat in particularit may increase ...
There’s a new incentive for tackling your cholesterol ... Foundation, coconut oil is 86 per cent saturated fat, a third more ...
Oats are high in soluble fiber, essential for lowering cholesterol. Blending oats with water or milk to create a warm oatmeal ...
However, other reports claim that coconut oil is good for your heart, because it reduces levels of the harmful form of cholesterol, LDL. LDL cholesterol is so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol ...
But the big surprise was the coconut oil. Not only was there no rise in LDL levels, which was what we were expecting, but there was a particularly large rise in HDL, the "good" cholesterol ...
Confusingly, though, while coconut oil as a whole increases plasma levels of high-density lipoproteins/HDLs (the “good” cholesterol), on its own, lauric acid increases low-density lipoproteins/LDLs ...