Coconut oil is well documented to nourish the thyroid and promote healthy metabolism. Coconut oil for weight loss has been extensively researched in the last 15 years. That’s right, a fat that PROMOTES weight loss in many studies! Native and indigenous Pacific Islanders eat coconut and oil in massive quantities, its fat being up to 60% of their caloric intake, and despite that, they have ideal height/weight ratios and virtually no cancer, heart disease, or degenerative diseases.

Coconut oil has been documented in many studies to promote weight loss even when you eat more than an ounce a day—one of very few fats that do NOT lead to weight gain because of the short-chain and medium-chain fatty acids (long-chain fatty acids are the ones that go to belly fat). MCFAs have 6.8 calories per gram compared to 9 calories per gram in other fats: they go straight to the liver rather than into the blood stream and are metabolized more like a carb than other fats. One study found that energy burn increased by 48 percent by those who ate MCFAs in their meal. And the higher metabolism remained elevated for at least 24 hours! You don’t find MCFAs in many oils—-there’s a little in butter, but coconut and palm oils are the only ones high in MCFAs.

MCFAs also help you utilize those critically important Essential Fatty Acids (found in fish, flax, etc.). Your absorption of EFAs is up to 100% higher when you get MCFAs in coconut oil into your diet daily.

This is the best price on coconut oil, by a mile, that GreenSmoothieGirl could find, in hours of searching. It’s organic, virgin, cold-pressed from the Phillipines, and I highly recommend this coconut oil for weight loss: