Books tout benefits of coconut oil

LETTERS

What if there was a cure for Alzheimer’s? There is. It is in the book “Alzheimer’s Disease — What If There Was A Cure? The Story of Ketones.”

The book is by Mary T. Newport. The Lethbridge Public Library has two copies of the book.

A friend has been using the cure for two months and is showing great improvement. The cure is coconut oil. The naysayers will jump on this because coconut oil’s reputation was damaged wrongly and unjustly by negative advertising starting in the mid-1980s which claimed that coconut oil caused blood cholesterol and was bad for the heart.

The advertising was done by the American soybean industry, which wanted “tropical oils” removed from grocery shelves to make room for their stuff, which itself has many of the negative effects they claimed coconut oil was supposed to have but does not.

Coconut oil comes in liquid and solid forms. Depending on where you shop, the price ranges from $6.99 to $13.99 for a 250 ml liquid coconut oil bottle; enough for a week’s supply of three tablespoons of oil a day.

Another way to get the benefits is by eating macaroons which are made with flaked coconut — but watch out — too much sugar — 11 grams in just one macaroon — but they taste so good! They also have the same benefits as the oil.

Another book I found in the library — “The Coconut Oil Miracle” by Bruce Fife — and I bought a copy at Chapters — provides much more information about the benefits of coconut oil.

I am not in the business of selling coconuts or the oil or books about the product. In writing this, I am asking this newspaper to spread the good news.

I am using the oil daily, as a preventative measure, because dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is said to take 20 years or more to develop before its worst effects become evident. Peter J. Fitzpatrick

Lethbridge