If I wanted olives, I’d buy whole olives, not the oil. (I buy both.)

If I wanted coconut, I’d buy whole coconut, not the oil.

The good news — unrefined coconut oil WON’T HURT YOU.

The negligible downside …

1) less heart-healthy oil, more coconut

2) coconut parts other than the oil are subject to spoilage

Only the coconut fat lasts forever, not what’s not refined out of it.

By the way, most of a human being’s depot fat is oleic acid, just like an olive.

And sea-level olives contain more oleic acid than mountain olives.

“Though the green color that forms on the skin of a potato is actually chlorophyll, which isn’t toxic at all (it’s the plant’s response to light exposure), the presence of chlorophyll indicates concentrations of solanine. The nerve toxin is produced in the green part of the potato (the leaves, the stem, and any green spots on the skin). The reason it exists? It’s a part of the plant’s defense against insects, disease and other predators.

“If you eat enough of the green stuff, it can cause vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, paralysis of the central nervous system (as evidenced by the incident above) but in some rare cases the poisoning can cause coma — even death.”

“In the cancer universe, everything revolves around a plastic dish in grossly unstable orbits that change randomly over time. No wonder most cancer researchers are confused by the complexity of an experimental model that became popular (ironically) because it was thought to reduce cancer to the essentials.”

According to the same source …

“Cell lines are ‘fun’ because they are convenient. You can do almost anything with them. Cell lines are also unlike any other life form on earth. Scientists enjoy describing their wildly unstable characteristics because nothing of the sort has ever been seen in the history of biology. Unfortunately, however, scientists attribute this instability to human cancer cells as well, despite the reality seen and documented in pathology labs every day. As a result, established views about cancer are as bizarre as the cell line research on which they are based.”

“Although Glasser (1976) has labeled habitual running a positive addiction, it should be emphasized that exercise addiction may be no different than any other form of opiate addiction. Laboratory research suggests that at least two neuropeptides, beta-endorphin (Wei & Loh, 1976) and leu-5-enkephalin (Stein & Belluzi, 1978) are highly addicting. Thus it would appear reasonable to predict that termination of daily exercise may elicit symptoms of opiate withdrawal. Consistent with this prediction, habitual runners frequently report feeling anxious, depressed, and hostile on days that they are prevented from running (Callen, 1983). Like other opiate addicts, habitual runners may compulsively seek their daily ‘fix’ merely to avoid unpleasant symptoms of withdrawal.”

“It [dynorphin] is about two hundred times more powerful than morphine and one of the most powerful endorphins yet discovered.”