Coconut oil consumption did not significantly affect markers of glycemia , inflammation , and adiposity as compared with nontropical vegetable oils .
Conclusions : Coconut oil consumption results in significantly higher LDL-cholesterol than nontropical vegetable oils .
Background : Coconut oil is high in saturated fat and may , therefore , raise serum cholesterol concentrations , but beneficial effects on other cardiovascular risk factors have also been suggested .
Therefore , we conducted a systematic review of the effect of coconut oil consumption on blood lipids and other cardiovascular risk factors compared with other cooking oils using data from clinical trials .
The effect of daily consumption of coconut fat and soya-bean fat on plasma lipids and lipoproteins of young normolipidaemic men.
The present paper reports the influence on plasma lipids of isoenergetic diets containing 30 % of energy as fat , with a polyunsaturated : saturated fat ratio of 4.00 or 0.25 , consumed for 8 weeks by twenty-five young normolipidaemic males . Approximately 70 % of the fat energy was provided by the test fats : soya-bean fat and coconut fat . During the soya-bean-fat-eating period the total plasma cholesterol level fell significantly compared with baseline values ( P less than 0.001 ) and during the coconut-fat-eating phase total plasma cholesterol level increased significantly compared with the soya-bean-eating period ( P less than 0.001 ) . On the soya-bean-fat diet , high-density-lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol decreased by 15 % ( range 6 - 35 % ) and plasma triacylglycerols decreased by 25 % ( range 13 - 37 % ) . Results of the present study show that even when the proportion of total fat in the diet is low , a high intake of linoleic acid lowers both total plasma cholesterol and HDL-cholesterol , while a high intake of saturated fat elevates both these lipid fractions . Application of regression formulas to the present findings indicates that short-chain saturated fatty acids have a neutral effect on serum cholesterol
Coconut oil consumption did not significantly affect markers of glycemia , inflammation , and adiposity as compared with nontropical vegetable oils .
Conclusions : Coconut oil consumption results in significantly higher LDL-cholesterol than nontropical vegetable oils .
Background : Coconut oil is high in saturated fat and may , therefore , raise serum cholesterol concentrations , but beneficial effects on other cardiovascular risk factors have also been suggested .
Therefore , we conducted a systematic review of the effect of coconut oil consumption on blood lipids and other cardiovascular risk factors compared with other cooking oils using data from clinical trials .