March 26, 2023
I’m a cardiologist. These are the seven foods I’ll never eat and why.
Among others:
Coconut oil
Despite being hailed in the late 2010s as an ultimate health food, evidence is beginning to mount that coconut oil is not so great for your heart, according to Dr Bhatt.
Coconut oil contains more saturated fat than lard — which can cause a build up of cholesterol in blood vessels.
It is also used in studies in mice and rats to mimic cholesterol blockages in the arteries, known as atherosclerosis.
When it comes to coconut oil, Dr Bhatt said that ‘probably some degree of caution is in order’.
‘And I wouldn’t excessively cook in coconut oil,’ he added.
Coconut oil is ‘pretty high in fat,’ he said. ‘There may be health benefits to coconut, but it’s like everything — at a certain point too much of anything is probably going to backfire in terms of where it tips from having health benefits to just being a lot of calories that are going in.’