Health Benefits of Coconut Oil: A Great Source of FAT – Dengue Fever Update
Our younger maid who has become sickly lately and lately recovering from dengue fever was suffering from fat deficiency and bad fat poisoning. Here is why:
I first noticed my maid was a fat phobic person. She would meticulously remove all the animal fat, whatever animal she was eating. Remove all the pork fat, remove all the fish fat, remove all duck or chicken skin, cook egg yolks to death.
The only fat she seemed to be able to consume was cooking oil, whatever her food was fried with. For some reason, they have this suspicious looking “culinary oil” which was allegedly coconut oil… but suspiciously cheap. It was not your usual langis. It was too yellowish. Probably hydrogenated, hell, even recycled. And that is what she eats only in terms of fat.
This maid, she came down with dengue fever and has been sick for a week. She’s the only one who came down with dengue fever. And I attribute this to fat poisoning. I thought that if she can’t eat any fat at all and gags on them… I tried giving her fermented cod liver oil… then may as well massage virgin coconut oil on her skin, maybe her skin can absorb enough into her blood stream.
Then I probingly asked her if she could eat the virgin coconut oil. And she said yes. She found the taste appealing. Only for me to find out later that indeed it was coconut oil she was usually consuming. Let me explain further.
Our maid had a stash of a tiny plastic flask that contained langis, cooked coconut oil with a few herbs and special prayers from her home town in her province. She would eat coconut oil “langis” some 5 times a week. And THAT was her main source of healthy fat. But she ran out of her langis a few weeks ago. And that led her to keep getting sick.
So I was happy to give her more virgin coconut oil. And I asked if she could call her home town and ask them to send her more of her coconut oil “langis”. Indeed she had requested. And a new bottle was waiting for her in Intramuros. I gave her uncle some money to pick up the special coconut oil from Intramuros.
So how has the diluted orange juice been doing for her? Pretty good. She’s recovering from dengue fever. Steadily gaining strength. And she now has her source of coconut oil: the virgin coconut oil and her coconut oil “langis.”
What are the health benefits of coconut oil? Well, if you are fat phobic and do not get any animal fat, coconut oil is the best you got as a substitute. Raw grass fed animal fats would be best, but coconut oil will have to do if you haven’t joined the raw paleo diet movement yet.