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Low-carb diets like Atkins and South Beach are the hottest weight loss programs on the market, but they could work faster and more effectively with the addition of one ingredient: coconut oil. Not only does it boost metabolism and speed weight loss, there is evidence that suggests that adding a small amount of coconut oil into one’s daily diet can help lower cholesterol; improve conditions such as diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, IBS, Crohns, and other digestive disorders; enhance thyroid production; and increase overall energy.

The Coconut Diet offers a 21-day weight loss program and includes a four-week cleansing regimen for readers who want more benefits. With meal plans and more than 70 recipes to help readers put the plan into action, as well as nutritional facts, tips for easy preparation, ingredient explanation, storage suggestions, and many other creative details, readers will learn how to start reaping the benefits of coconut oil today.

One of The Coconut Diet's biggest strengths is the recipes. Cherie includes a wide range of easy, deeply flavorful sauces, soups and condiments that will keep the interest of the pickiest palate while still following the fairly strict limitations of the accompanying diet.

Many of the chapters concern themselves with the varied symptoms of poor health--low energy, general aches and pains and digestive troubles. Suggestions for feeling better center around cleansing juice fasts, supplements, and colonics, along with a recommendation of adding virgin coconut oil to each meal, for a total of two to three tablespoons every day. A healthy fat with a bad reputation, it has numerous health benefits. One major weight loss benefit is that it helps you feel full during a limited-calorie diet. But that's not all. The liver likes to burn medium chain fatty acids (MCTs), which means this oil will help you lose weight. Other oils, made of up long chain fatty acids (LCTs) contribute to weight gain because the body tends to store them, rather than burn them.

In May 2003, Woman's World magazine ran an article touting the weight loss benefits of coconut oil. It created such a demand that by June, there was hardly a bottle to be found. This book provides the scientific information about why this oil works for weight loss and health improvement, as well as how to use it.

“I've written quite a bit over the years about the countless advantages of coconut oil and its many health-promoting benefits. Cherie's easy-to-read book takes a closer look at the disease-fighting properties of coconut oil and provides you with pages of research and statistics on why coconut oil is one of the most misunderstood and overlooked foods of recent times. The Coconut Diet is a very practical read and does all the work for you by providing you with a 2I-day weight-loss plan along with delicious recipes. The authors of this book, Cherie and John Calbom do a thorough job of showing the readers how they can enhance their lifestyles by offering them several tools such as quizzes to determine if they have diseases preventing their weight-loss success and in-depth shopping lists of the best foods to buy for the coconut diet. It is only with resources like this book that coconut oil is starting to get the respect it deserves as not only the healthiest oil you can consume, but as one of the most nutritious of all foods.” – Dr. Joseph Mercola