The Better Baby Book by Lana Asprey, David Asprey Page B

just flip the egg over very briefly until the white solidifies but the yolk is still soft and runny.
    Lana ate lots of eggs—more than two or three per day—during both pregnancies and while nursing. Not only did Lana have healthy pregnancies, her blood fat and cholesterol levels are perfect.
    Coconut
    When we suggest to mothers that they should eat coconut, the most common response we hear is “But isn't coconut full of cholesterol?” The answer is no. Coconut oil is high in healthy saturated fat but has no cholesterol. The popular belief that coconuts are unhealthy was manufactured in the mid-1980s by the American Soy Association, which created a propaganda campaign against coconut oil in order to enrich U.S. soy farmers.
    Throughout history, many different cultures have valued coconut highly as both a food and a medicine. Modern science has discovered many of the reasons. According to the Coconut Research Center in Colorado Springs, coconut can kill bacteria as well as viruses, fungi, and parasites. People who live in the Pacific Islands and parts of Asia where a lot of coconut is consumed have lower rates of cardiovascular disease, cancers, and other degenerative diseases associated with the Western diet.
    A 1960s study examined the populations of two Pacific islands—Pukapuka and Tokelau—that totaled about twenty-five hundred people. The Polynesian people, who are the main inhabitants of these islands, have adhered to their traditional ways of living, including their diet, which is high in saturated fat from coconut, high in fiber, and low in sugar. The people were lean and healthy—much more so than their Western counterparts—and had very low rates of disease.
    The study noted that when some of the Polynesian people migrated to New Zealand and switched to eating a Western-type diet, they experienced higher cholesterol and an increased rate of cardiovascular disease. The point is that people who eat coconut instead of other fat sources (typically high in unhealthy polyunsaturated and hydrogenated fats) are far healthier than people who don't.
    For a long time, people in the United States and Europe believed that coconut is unhealthy because of its saturated fat content. We now know that the opposite is true. The fats in coconut are mostly medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). It's the MCT content that makes coconut such a powerful antibiotic, viricide, fungicide, and parasiticide. MCTs also promote a healthy cholesterol level and help to prevent heart disease. Maybe that's why people in Panama have been known to drink coconut oil by the glass to fight illness. It's certainly why we use both coconut oil and MCT oil, a coconut oil extract that further boosts the number of energizing MCTs in our diet.
    Unlike the MCTs in coconut, almost all other fats in our diet, from animals and plants alike, are long-chain fatty acids. Because the length of a fatty acid makes a big difference in how it will be used inside the body, the fact that coconuts are the only food we eat that has a significant number of MCTs gives it a particularly important role in our health.
    Coconut oil is a source of many of the various types of healthy fats your body needs to make a healthy baby, and each fat has unique benefits. Half of coconut oil is lauric acid, one of the components of breast milk that helps to fight bacteria. Coconut also contains two other healthy fats, caprylic acid and capric acid, which are available as energy immediately after you eat them with no extra processing by your body. For a healthier pregnancy and for the best breast milk, you should get plenty of these three kinds of fat in your diet. The best way to do that is to consume coconut oil, using it to cook with or in various dressings and sauces.
    You should add MCT oil to your diet, too. MCT oil is not a replacement for coconut oil, because it lacks lauric acid, but we particularly like it because it provides a noticeable energy boost and because, being flavorless,