Coconut oil is a medium-chain saturated fat. To the body coconut oil is a very useful energy source and the liver makes use of it very quickly. It certainly goes to show you that all fats are not created equal. As islander farmers found when they tried to use coconuts and coconut oil to fatten up pigs, to no success. This is due to one of the many great health properties of coconut oil – it speeds up the metabolism.
More sever reactions to these substances include numbness, double vision, blindness, and cardiac arrest. Excito-toxins are associated with neural-degenerative diseases (think Alzheimer’s), neural-developmental abnormalities, diabetes type I and II, endocrine disorders, obesity, immune dysfunction, enhanced cancer growth and spread, gastro intestinal disorders, autoimmune disorders, multiple sclerosis and sudden cardiac death. Notice how that just about covers most of the major modern afflictions? Even if food additives were not the original causes of many of these disorders they make the conditions advance at a far greater rate and eventually far more severe.
