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By now, we know that coconut oil is the heart healthiest oil in the world - providing more benefits than even safflower oil or soybean oil! Yes, it does flavor your food more delicately than corn oil and it doesn't sputter as much as safflower oil (you would know this if you were handy around the kitchen and actually cared about what went into your food), but did you know that coconut oil benefits include your overall health as well as the luster of your hair and the smoothness of your skin?
Beauty Secrets of Philippine Island Maidens
They may not have been queens like Cleopatra (who bathed in milk), but Philippine maidens of ages past had tapped into the luxurious, emollient qualities of coconut oil long before European ladies discovered rich face creams available only to royalty.
Coconut climbers known as "mananguiti" would clamber up the slim trees seemingly hanging on to dear life. The bountiful harvest of coconuts ensured that the clear oil was available for the beauty use of every lady from the island's warrior queens to the lowliest of female serfs.
They would smooth it over their luxurious tresses and flaunt their ebony swaths, holding the attention of every island swain. Before they retired in the evenings they would slather it all over their tanned skins, giving it a shiny, copper glow.
You can actually benefit from this ancient beauty secret by warming the oil and slathering it over any area that needs softening and smoothing!
Experience the Benefits of Coconut Oil on the Inside Too!
If you decide to use coconut oil as a healthy alternative to cooking oil then you will experience health benefits in more ways than one:
- Promoting your heart health
- Promoting weight loss when and if you need it
- Supporting your immune system health
- Supporting a healthy metabolism
- Providing you with an immediate energy source
- Helping to keep your skin healthy and youthful looking
- Supporting the proper functioning of your thyroid gland
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1 comments:
Hello Dr. Mercola! "...but Philippine maidens of ages past had tapped into the luxurious, emollient qualities of coconut oil long before European ladies discovered rich face creams available only to royalty."
- Spot on, Sir!
Even nowadays, people (especially women) in the provinces, still use home made virgin coconut oil (VCO) exclusively for their skin and hair care.
Particularly in the Bicol province, the coconut capital of the Philippines and where my wife hails from, they would regularly prepare rice cake and squeeze out the last drop of "the oil" from the grated meat while at it. Deliciously healthy! :-)
Just my two cents, Sir.
Cheers,
CoconutOilGuy
www.coconut-oil-central.com
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