Coconut and Reduced Anthropometric Parameter

• Coconut oil: an overview of cardiometabolic effects and the public health burden of misinformation.

  • 2023
  • Review
  • Archives of endocrinology and metabolism 67(6)
  • • Bernardo Frison Spiazzi
    • Ana Cláudia Duarte
    • Carolina Pires Zingano
    • Paula Portal Teixeira
    • Carmen Raya Amazarray
    • Eduarda Nunes Merello
    • Laura Fink Wayerbacher
    • Laura Penso Farenzena
    • Poliana Espíndola Correia
    • Marcello Casaccia Bertoluci
    • Fernando Gerchman
    • Verônica Colpani

  • PubMed: 37364144
  • DOI: 10.20945/2359-3997000000641

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Anthropometric Parameter

  • Low evidence

  Recent data from meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) suggest that dietary intake of coconut oil, rich in saturated fatty acids, does not result in cardiometabolic benefits, nor in improvements in anthropometric, lipid, glycemic, and subclinical inflammation parameters.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No