looking for ways to speed up our metabolism and lose weight coconut oil may be the latest craze we reached out to a local woman who uses coconut oil for both health and beauty enhancement and asked a local nutrition expert if the product really lives up to its hype turn this up to a medium heat karina kilcoin is preparing an afternoon snack with coconut oil the latest health and beauty trend a health and lifestyle blogger she believes in its benefits i do feel that i get a little boost of energy coconut oil is supposed to be
wonderful for your thyroid function and it is supposed to increase your metabolism and she doesn't just use it in the kitchen i use it to remove my eye makeup i use it as a cuticle softener i also use it as a lip balm and lately i've been also adding it to my dog's food and i'm adding in a little bit of time karina also makes a homemade body scrub taking two tablespoons of the unrefined coconut oil and adding organic sugar and then you just sort of work this together until you feel like you're getting the
right sort of gritty consistency with it i tried it and have to say it felt much like more expensive products i've tried in a salon usf health nutrition professor lori wright doesn't question its moisturizing properties but says your body doesn't absorb the fat that you put on on your skin so it's a good moisturizer perhaps but it's not going to be absorbed into the body and and do anything with your with your heart or your health and she adds there's little scientific proof of coconut oils health benefits or even health risks it is in her
opinion a neutral fat even though it's a saturated fat it seems to be shaped a little different so why we say neutral we're looking at the impact on the heart and some of the fats in the blood like the triglycerides and what we've seen is that it doesn't raise or lower an interesting fact researchers at usf health bird alzheimer's institute are currently looking into if coconut oil has any benefits in terms of alzheimer's
