Tips to lose fat and get lean: Be lavish with coconut oil

Coconut oil / butter isn’t just good for moisturising the skin or for adding an exotic flavour to otherwise mundane dishes (cooking your scrambled eggs in coconut butter adds a deliciously different tang by the way).  It is choc full of healthy nutrients that make it one of the absolute best fat loss choices you can have for using as a butter or a dietary fat.

I have written previously about the myriad fat loss benefits of consuming fresh coconut, but the oil / butter version (butter when chilled in the fridge, oil when left for any length of time at room temperature), and the one key thing you need to bear in mind with coconut oil is that it contains medium-chain-fatty acids (otherwise knows as MCTs, or medium-chain-triglycerides) that have long been a staple of many bodybuilders’ fat loss diets.  The rationale, backed up by research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is that you can’t really store MCTs as fat and that instead the body uses them for a rapid energy boost.  Almost like a sugar rush without the attendant blood sugar crash and fat gain.

I have never been one to believe that MCTs are the miracle fat loss “secret” that they were once (way back in the early 1990s) heralded as being.  But anything that has an abundance of them is certainly healthy and a better alternative than 99.9% of commercially available oils and butters.  So why not try coconut oil – the strong chances are that both your taste buds and waistline will approve!