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immediately improved, to an extremely low-carbo-
scoring 18 on a cognitive hydrate ketogenic diet. 14
assessment, four points
higher than he had scored INDUSTRY
the previous day. Within a DAMAGE CONTROL
week he showed tremen- The attack by Dr. Oz
dous improvement and five and Mr. Roizen amounts
months later her husband to clever industry damage
was leading a relatively control. Imagine the loss of
normal life, although still income to the pharmaceu-
unable to resume his work tical and food industries
as an accountant, appar- should the American pub-
ently due to permanent lic learn about the amazing
brain damage. benefits of coconut oil
One important test for for the brain. Coconut oil
Alzheimer’s progression is holds potential in the treat-
to draw the face of a clock Mr. Newport’s drawings of a clock show his improved neurological ment of cancer as well, as
from memory. The illus- function after beginning treatment with coconut oil. several studies have indi-
tration above shows Mr. cated coconut oil’s anti-
Newport’s improvement as carcinogenic effects.
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he took coconut oil. Any time an attack like this appears in the media, it is good to remem-
Why does coconut oil work so well? Several ber that coconut and coconut oil are natural foods used by healthy peoples
researchers have been looking into the therapeutic for thousands of years. The attack on coconut oil is not grounded in good
use of high-fat ketonic diets in the treatment of science but in the agenda of the food industry.
disease. In 2001, Dr. Richard L. Veech of the
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