A simple country woman told me that she started putting coconut oil in her coffee. She read somewhere that coconut oil in coffee is nutritious and helps with weight loss. She didn’t quite understand the mechanism, but she said to give it a try. It can’t be harmful and if she finds a convenient method that she likes the taste she’d better give it a chance, give herself a chance to get rid of the extra pounds weighing her down. She bought a jar of extra virgin coconut oil and started experimenting. After a few days and several failed attempts to find the perfect taste, she succeeded. She reached the perfect ratio of coffee and coconut oil, mixed in the blender. It became her morning ritual. After a while, she noticed that her craving for sweets diminished. That she no longer gobbles up any candy in her sight, it just doesn’t appeal to her anymore. She didn’t have a scale in the house, she’s a country woman, but it started to bother her that she had to stop digging tomatoes to pull up her pants. She had lost weight. Her story reminded me of an educated man’s arrogant comment: What’s with this ridiculous fad of putting oil in coffee? And the failed attempt of a friend who, after putting a teaspoon of coconut oil in her coffee, one morning, decided she didn’t like it, that it ruined the taste of the coffee, and didn’t give it another chance.
My post is not meant to be an apology for the consumption of coconut oil, coffee, or coconut oil in coffee. There is no hard-and-fast scientific evidence, well-documented, heavily funded studies, that they are beneficial to health. And they won’t exist either. Some research has been done and some gratifying but, as I said, not scientifically proven, conclusions have been reached: coconut oil contains a fat called “medium-chain triglycerides”, which bypasses the bile and is converted directly into energy without triggering production of insulin. Thus, that fat is not deposited in the body, and the abdominal fat already installed begins to melt. It produces ketones, which appear to reduce cognitive decline. Reduces cravings for sweets and appetite in general. It contains the famous lauric acid, a powerful antioxidant. But the doctor will not recommend a teaspoon of coconut oil in our morning coffee, but antibiotic, statins and other drugs, because they are approved and verified.
What I wanted to tell you is that it doesn’t matter how educated you are, if you are not open to new things, you only follow safely the paths beaten by others. If you don’t have a bit of crazy to try something new. If you’ve never asked yourself the question: what if…? If you reject even the idea of an unverified step into the void. If your education narrowed your horizon instead of widening it. Does not matter.
