Suggestion:  Implement coconut oil into your diet

Ideas for implementation

• take up to 3 tablespoons a day (great for energy and weight loss efforts)
• replace all processed vegetable oils including soy, canola, corn, etc
• bake, cook and lightly fry in coconut oil
• top popcorn, oatmeal, vegetables, etc with coconut oil
• add to smoothies, dips and spreads

Recipe (from Featured Book)

Coconut Smoothie
(Eat Fat Lose Fat, by Dr Mary Enig and Sally Fallon)

1 ripe banana
1/2 cup whole coconut milk
2 tablespoons maple syrup
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Place banana in food processor and process to a puree.  Add remaining ingredients and process to a puree.  Add enough water to obtain desired consistency.

Quick and Easy Weight Loss Version:  Use a pinch of stevia powder in place of maple syrup (562 calories).

Also in Eat Fat Lose Fat, by Dr Mary Enig and Sally Fallon on page 10:

Special Weight-Loss Tip: Drink Your Oil
Want a surefire way to escalate weight loss?  Twenty minutes before each meal, take some coconut oil!  It goes on to state the easiest way to take your coconut oil is to make a Coconut infusion: place 1 to 2 tablespoons of softened coconut oil into a mug and add hot water (or hot herbal tea), allowing the oil to melt before drinking.  

Suggested Reading

• Eat Fat Lose Fat, by Dr Mary Enig and Sally Fallon (Coconut recipes!)

• The Coconut Diet, by Cherie Clabom (Coconut recipes!)

• Know Your Fats, by Dr Mary Enig

• Stop Worrying About Cholesterol, by Dr Richard E. Tapert, DO

• Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon

• Virgin Coconut Oil, by Brian and Marianita Jader Shilhavy (Coconut recipes!)

• Eat Fat, Look Thin, by Bruce Fife, ND

• The Schwarzbein Principle, by Dr Diana Schwarzbein

• The Coconut Oil Miracle (formally The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil), by Bruce Fife, ND (Coconut recipes!)

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