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Hardly. These are all the basics you already know and love, plus new techniques that enhance digestion and absorption of nutrients.
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    In Part 2 you’ll learn how to follow our program. Chapter 5 offers complete information about the traditional foods you’ll learn to enjoy. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 present our three diet plans: Quick and Easy Weight Loss, Health Recovery, and Everyday Gourmet, each with a complete menu plan. In Part 3: Recipes and Resources, Chapter 9 presents those based on coconut, while the recipes in Chapter 10 show you how to prepare a variety of wholesome, traditional foods. Finally, our ample Resources section helps you locate sources of the products we recommend, explains the differences between brands, and offers a special treat: a list of coconut oil recipes for removing wrinkles, treating acne, and creating lustrous, smooth skin.
    Right now, let’s look further into one particular assertion about saturated fat: the charge that it’s responsible for heart disease. Chapter 2 will show you otherwise—and also tell the story of the well-orchestrated campaign to hide the truth about saturated and trans fats from the American public.

Chapter Two
Fats, the Real Deal
    We’ve seen thousands of Westerners dramatically upgrade their health by adopting a time-honored traditional diet while, on the other hand, traditional peoples who have abandoned that diet in favor of modern oils have experienced radical health declines, according to recent studies. For example, Indians experienced a dramatic increase in heart disease as they urbanized, according to an article in the Journal of the Indian Medical Association , 2000. The most likely reason? Their adoption of Western foods, especially switching to vegetable oils instead of using traditional ghee (clarified butter) for cooking.
    If you’re like most people we meet, when you hear about the benefits of coconut and other saturated fats, you may wonder, “If saturated fat is so great, why have I always been told it’s bad?” The fact is that for the last four decades, saturated fats, including coconut oil, have been banned from general consumption, condemned and locked away for the misdeeds of polyunsaturated fats, trans fats, and refined carbohydrates , foods that are still at large wreaking havoc with American waistlines (not to mention our life expectancy).
    If eating saturated fat caused heart disease and weight gain, then eliminating those fats should have resulted in a decline in heart disease and an increase in weight loss. But look around you. That’s not what happened! While we Americans have been dutifully eliminating fat from our diet, eating low-fat foods, and avoiding saturated fats from tropical oils, butter, and red meats, obesity rates and the overall incidence of heart disease have continued to climb.
    The truth is that the “diet police” condemned the wrong culprit. It wasn’t saturated fat or coconut oil (a dietary staple in countries such as Thailand and the Philippines with consistently lower heart disease rates than our own) that caused our galloping heart disease rates. An entire body of research implicates refined grains and sugars (especially high-fructose corn syrup)— not saturated fats—as the cause of obesity, and vegetable oils and trans fats as key factors in heart disease. At long last, nutritional experts around the country agree and have called for a revision of the USDA Food Pyramid, which promotes excess consumption of the real culprits. (Although the new USDA guidelines do contain warnings about trans fats, they still condemn saturated fats.)
    Let us repeat: the very oils promoted as healthy in place of saturated fats were, in fact, accessories (along with refined grains and sweets) to this nation’s mounting weight gain and key contributors to heart disease. Recent research reveals that it is the polyunsaturated vegetable oils, not the saturated fats in coconut oil and animal foods, that induce changes leading