The Coconut Oil Miracle: Use Nature's Elixir to Lose Weight, Beautify Skin and Hair, Prevent Heart Disease, Cancer, and Diabetes, Strengthen the Immune System, Fifth Edition

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Penguin, Dec 3, 2013 - Health & Fitness - 304 pages
A completely revised and updated guide for maximizing the health and beauty benefits of coconut oil
 
For years, The Coconut Oil Miracle has been a reliable guide for men and women alike. Now in its fifth edition, this revised and updated version has even more information on the benefits of coconut oil and shows readers how to use it for maximum effect, including a nutrition plan with 50 delicious recipes. Coconut oil is much more than just a fad. It is a uniquely curative elixir that has been shown to have countless health benefits.

When taken as a dietary supplement, used in cooking, or applied directly to the skin, coconut oil has been found to:
 

 



   •  Promote weight loss
   •  Help prevent heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's, and many other degenerative diseases
   •  Strengthen the immune system
   •  Improve digestion
   •  Prevent premature aging of the skin
   •  Beautify skin and hair


Dr. Bruce Fife is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities on the health benefits of coconut oil. This newest edition of The Coconut Oil Miracle is updated with crucial information, including the latest studies on links between coconut oil and benefits relating to heart function, Alzheimer’s prevention, bodily detoxification, weight loss, and many other hot topics.

 

Contents

Understanding Fats
15
A New Weapon Against Heart Disease
37
Natures Marvelous Germ Fighter
61
Eat Fat Lose Weight
95
Beautiful Skin and Hair
119
Coconut Oil as Food and as Medicine
144
Eat Your Way to Better Health
198
Recipes for Nutrition and Beauty
227
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Bruce Fife, C.N., N.D., is an author, speaker, certified nutritionist, and naturopath. He has written over 20 books, including Coconut Cures and Coconut Lover’s Cookbook. He is the publisher and editor of the Healthy Ways Newsletter. He serves as the president of the Coconut Research Center, an organization whose purpose is to educate health care professionals and the public about the health and nutritional aspects of coconut.

Fife was the first to gather together the medical research on the health benefits of coconut oil and present it in an understandable and readable format for the general public. He is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities on the health benefits of coconut oil.

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