Good Info On Coconut Oil and Virgin Coconut Oil

One important thing that has provided the mankind with lots of useful materials in over the history is the palm tree. The most important materials that come from the palm tree are coconut oils. Coconut and palm kernel oils were considered very good health oils in Ayurvedic medicine almost 4000 years ago.

The Sanskrit medicine found out that the coconut oils had almost the same health effects like the mothers's milk. It was thought that the human milk worked as some kind of antibiotic after an eye surgery. But latest research has shown that there is a similarity between coconut oil and human milk: their fat or lipid content.

So belive me that the medium chain fatty acids and monoglycerides found primarily in these two coconut oils and mothers milk have miraculous healing power. Another great advantages of them is that they have many useful properties and no toxicity or bad side effects.

This tropical oils, the coconut oil and the palm kernel oil will be the new oils of the next millennium.

I will try in the rest of this article to show some great benefits of the virgin coconut oil.

The virgin coconut oil has great antiviral, anti fungal and antibacterial properties. It contains lauric acid which is very good in preventing problem caused by viruses and bacteria.

The virgin coconut oil is also good for increasing the metabolic rate. It provides a good source of energy. Adding coconut oil in your diet will have the result of burning more calories because of an increased metabolism. Also if you are following a wight-loss plan it's very good to add some coconut oil too.

The coconut oil is also very good for your skin. Using it will make your skin smooth and soft. It also has some good chances on preventing cancer, premature aging and wrinkling of your skin.

So this are only a few of the advantages and effects of the coconut oil. There are many more others that aren't even discovered yet. This means that the oil industry must move quickly to modernize itself in making value added products from these oils which will contribute to a more vigorous and healthy effects.