The Coconut Palm: From Island Myth to Deadly Diet or Healing Miracle?
The
Importance of Coconut Oil
For about 3960 years of the of the past 4000
years of the documented historical use of the fruits of the coconut palm as a
food and a pharmaceutical, the news has all been good. It was seen as a
sustainable resource from which the harvested materials influenced every aspect
of the lives of tropical communities, but most importantly its fruit, the
coconut flesh, water, milk and oil.
The use of coconut oil around the world in
tropical regions is prolific: South and Central America, Africa, the Indian
subcontinent, Micro-, Mele- and Poly-nesia and most of Asia
During WWII the water of the young green coconut was successfully
used as a substitute for a saline drip saving the lives of many allied soldiers.
After the war, in England coconut oil was sold as "margarine" and in the USA as
"coconut butter"
However, this all changed in 1954
David Kritchevsky published two academic papers
clipped from: www.coconut-connections.com 
