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Also Available: The Truth About Coconut oil – Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Version   |  Links to Information on this site about the coconut   |  includes: How to Crack a Coconut   |  Coconuts in Thailand   |  Recipes with Coconut   |  Coconuts   |  Purchasing Coconut Oil

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• Coconut Research Center – An excellent site with many excellent information and links about coconut.
• Coconut-Info website – loaded with great information. This is where you can order Virgin Coconut Oil.
• UK site offering information on coconut oil can be found at www.coconut-connections.com
• Center for Research on Lauric Oils, Inc. – Contains information on the benefits of lauric acid and its healing effects. (Coconut oil is one of the lauric fats.)
  • includes a book chapter by Mary Enig on the Lauric Oils as Antimicrobial Agents.

• Coconut: In Support of Good Health in the 21st Century by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., F.A.C.N. – The most comprehensive article online: it was 21 pages on my printer, 9 pages of which were scientific references. If you read nothing else, read this!
• Nutritional And Health Aspects Of Coconut Oil by Jon J. Kabara, Ph.D

• Coconut Oil – Why it is Good for you – by Lita Lee. An excellent summary.
• Coconut Oil: A Good Fat – One page summary on the Omega Nutrition website.
• Cholesterol and Coconut – An good summary article, found on the Temple of Thai online Thai grocery store.
• For Thais, palm oil always has been a good thing – by Olivia Wu, in the San Francisco Chronicle. Includes information from Kasma and a picture of her.
• Coconut Oil & Its Virtues – by Ray Peat, Ph.D
• The Healthy Resurgence of Tropical Oils: Coconut Oil – Also on the Omega Nutrition website.

• Links on Fats and Oils – found on our Healthlinks Page.

• Coconut-info Website
• Coconut Resource Page by Oregon State University.
• Coconutoil-online dot com.

• The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil, by Bruce Fife, N.D. Piccadilly Books, Ltd, Healthwise Publications, Colorado Springs, CO, 2000, ISBN 0-941599-51-5.
• Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. Bethesda Press, 2000, ISBN: 0967812607 – Your best bet for comprehensive information on the whole coconut oil/fat issue.
• Nourishing Traditions , by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. NewTrends Publishing, revised edition October 1999, ISBN 0967089727 – Loaded with interesting information on all aspects of nutrition. Actually a cookbook with nutritional information. A fun read.
• The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease. By Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D. NewTrends Publishing, 2000, ISBN 0-9670897-0-0.
• All Thumbs Book Reviews is the Weston A. Price Foundation's list of recommended books about nutrition.

Here is a page devoted to purchasing coconut oil.

Also Available:  The Truth About Coconut oil – Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Version   |  Links to Information on this site about the coconut   |  includes: Cracking a Coconut – The Easy Way   |  Recipes with Coconut   |  Coconuts in Thailand   |  Purchasing Coconut Oil

Other Link Pages:   Links to Health Information   |  General Links  |  Soy Links

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