On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 11:57:55 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-12-29 11:29 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>
>> If you're saying that one could easily die by eating that stuff every
>> day for decades, I won't disagree. My recommendation is that people
>> should not follow this practice.
>>
>
>When I had cardiac rehab and had a session with the dietitian I was
>given a sheet with lists of foods to eat and foods to avoid. On the list
>of foods to eat it said fruit and, in big bold capital letters, NOT COCONUT.

That's because most dietitians (and bodies such as the FDA) are
extremely conservative and take forever to update their knowledge with
current scientific information. Coconut gets dumped in the category of
'saturated fats' and they can't grasp the concept that not all
saturated fats are the same.