Reduce Type 2 Diabetes using Coconut Oil

A study made in animals reveal that the coconut oil safeguard against insulin resistance in muscle and fat.  The diet also limits the addition of body fat due to other diets with high fat of similar calorie content.  These findings are vital because insulin resistance and obesity are major factors that lead to the growth of Type 2 diabetes.  The study also explains why people whose diet includes coconut oil with medium chain fatty acids can loose body fat. 

The findings are available online in the Diabetes international journal.  Dr. Nigel Turner and Professor Jiming Ye of the Sydney Garvan Institute of Medical Research compared insulin resistance and fat metabolism in mice fed lard based and coconut oil diets.  Nigel Turner the study leader said that medium chain fatty acids that are found in coconut oil behave in a different way than other fats found in our diets.  Not like the long chain fatty acids contained in animal fats, the medium chain fatty acids are sufficiently small to go inside the mitochondria where they can be transformed into energy.  The side effect on taking in medium chain fatty acid is that they fat is built up in the liver.