The researchers found that glucose metabolism only increased 17 % in a high - fructose diet as compared to 46 % for those rates fed a standard coconut oil diet. (healthimpactnews.com)
There hasn't been a human trial, but high coconut oil diets appear to impair insulin sensitivity in rats, (more rats), hamsters, and rabbits. (nutritionfacts.org)
«Our previous results on mice showed that replacing some of the fat in a diet high in saturated fats from coconut oil with soybean oil — to achieve a level common in the American diet — causes significantly more weight gain, adiposity, diabetes and insulin resistance than in mice fed just the high - fat coconut oil diet,» Sladek said. (sciencedaily.com)