TY - BOOK AU - Dayrit, Conrado S. TI - The truth about coconut oil: the drugstore in a bottle SN - 9789712716959 AV - QP 752 .F352 2005b PY - 2005/// CY - Pasig City PB - Anvil Pub. KW - Coconut oil KW - Fatty acids in human nutrition N1 - Includes references N2 - and for the first time, the revelation of its anti-inflammatoru and immuno-regulating actions as shown by its remarkable control of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, auto-immune diseases and cancer; the recent and continuing explosion of new knowledge on coconut oil's energizing antiobesity effects; This book is a veritable collection of 18 years of advocacy, with lectures on the beneficial actions and uses of coconut oil in health and disease by the author--a pharmacologist, internist, cardiologist, researcher, historian, and academician--backed up by the published (if hidden for decades) findings of American scientists on coconut oil's uniqueness, namely its composition, metabolism and its killing actions on lipid-coated pathogenic organism (viruses, bacteria, fugi, protozoa) ER -