Sheldon wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>> Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
>>> "Sheldon" >, if that's their real name, wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bob wrote:

<snip a bunch of irrelevant punctuation rants>

>>>>> Sheldon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course,(2) since that site SELLS coconut oil,(3) I'm not so
>>>>>>> sure
>>>> sure
>>>>>>> that Ken didn't fall for marketing hype. I'm not going to load
>>>>>>> up
>> up
>>>>>>> on coconut oil,(4) in any case.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> B,B,B,B,ob
> -------------
> Bob Apr 6, 3:26 am
> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
> From: "Bob" >
> Date: 6 Apr 2005 05:26:05 -0500
> Local: Wed, Apr 6 2005 3:26 am
> Subject: Coconut oil for baking?
>
> Nancree wrote:
>> Coconut oil is NOT one of the healthy oils.
>
> At the end of January, "Ken Davey" posted:
>
> "Recent thinking has it that coconut oil is one of the healthiest
> available.
> http://www.mercola.com/2003/se**p/13/coconut_oil.htm"
>
> Of course, since that site SELLS coconut oil, I'm not so sure that Ken
> didn't fall for marketing hype. I'm not going to load up on coconut
> oil, in any case.
>
> Bob
> ------------
>
>
> Sheldon
Well since my olde post has been dragged into this;
The site I originally pointed out was not alone in praising coconut oil. A
Google search returns some 1.2 million results.
Here is one that isn't selling anything.
http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/features/cocgood.html
that says (in part)

"Why are we misinformed?
In one word: economics. Beginning with a flawed study four decades ago,
continuing through the 1950s, intensifying in the 1980s, and again in the
1990s, the misinformation about coconut oil has been promulgated by such
economically motivated organizations as the American Soybean Association
(ASA), the Corn Products Company (CPC International) and the Center for
Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). They are aided by the United States
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many of whose key personnel are
recruited from and return to the vegetable oil industry. Previously, coconut
oil was widely used in baked goods and fried goods until their publicity
campaigns, based on erroneous information, totally discredited coconut oil
and caused its nearly complete elimination from the American diet."

Your serve Sheldon.



Ken.

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