{"id":143685,"date":"2024-08-24T14:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143685"},"modified":"2024-08-24T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T21:24:01","slug":"coconut-oil-study-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/24\/coconut-oil-study-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Coconut Oil Study in Sri Lanka."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lankaweb Health<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>This short video clip highlights the utmost importance of preserving the consumption of Coconut oil use in Sri Lanka as opposed to Palm oil, etc.\u00a0 It benefits were so well explained and pioneered by Prof DP Atukorale&#8217; who was my classmate and Medical School batch mate, many years ago.\u00a0 Big Pharma and Corporate interests waged a serious anti-Coconut oil propaganda war against him and thereby people in Sri Lanka drastically reduced its consumption.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sad part is there ARE unscrupulous producers, traders, marketers, etc, who <strong><em><u>ADULTERATE Virgin Coconut Oil with Palm oil, <\/u><\/em><\/strong>and hence the people at large are deprived of the great benefits of Coconut oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new President of Sri Lanka and his\/her group MUST ensure these crooks are caught and given the most severe punishment just as what happened&nbsp; crooked previous Health Minister<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coconut Oil\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zGKADY5IITU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lankaweb Health This short video clip highlights the utmost importance of preserving the consumption of Coconut oil use in Sri Lanka as opposed to Palm oil, etc.\u00a0 It benefits were so well explained and pioneered by Prof DP Atukorale&#8217; who was my classmate and Medical School batch mate, many years ago.\u00a0 Big Pharma and Corporate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,180,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}