Coconut oil is also unusual because it contains a high percentage of medium-chain triglycerides, or MCTs. Most oils consist entirely of long-chain triglycerides, or LCTs, which are more than 12 carbons long. Soybean oil, for example, is 100 percent LCTs. Medium-chain triglycerides are 6 to 12 carbons long. Coconut oil contains roughly 40 percent LCTs and 60 percent MCTs. The difference matters because our bodies metabolize MCTs differently than LCTs. MCTs are transported directly from the intestinal tract to the liver, where theyre likely to be directly burned off as fuel and raise the metabolic rate slightly, explains researcher Marie-Pierre St-Onge of Columbia University. That means less is available to be circulated throughout the body and deposited in fat tissues. So if you use coconut oil instead of other oils, will those extra pounds melt away?
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:51:04 +0000
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