Coconut Oil: Discover the Key to Vibrant Health (Alive Natural Health Guides)

Learn why unrefined extra virgin coconut oil is a healthful choice and how to choose the best quality oil for cooking and baking. Research has proven that coconut oil will improve digestion and nutrient absorption, fight infection, increase immunity and decrease inflammation, heal skin conditions and more.
Unrefined virgin coconut oil is the perfect replacement for shortening in baked goods and is the safest choice for frying foods. Delicious recipes and color photos will provide information and inspiration to help you easily reap the benefits from this miraculous natural food. You'll also discover how to bake with coconut flour to help reduce cholesterol and heart disease as well as how to use coconut oil as an all-purpose beauty aid.

Siegfried Gursche has been involved with the natural foods industry all of his adult life. He was inducted into the Canadian Health Food Association (CHAF) Hall of Fame as the Father of the Natural Health Movement in Canada in 1997.<BR In 2005, thirty years after he founded Alive Magazine, Siegfried retired from Alive Publishing Group. That same year he embarked on a new venture to support economically sustainable living for third world villages through distributorship of DME extra virgin coconut oil.
He is the author of Fantastic Flax (1999, Good Fats and Oils (2000), Juicing for the Health of It (2000), and Coconut Oil (2005).