Does eating coconut oil raise your cholesterol level - it is saturated fat?

Question

I've heard recently that coconut oil is actually healthy, and better handled by the body than butter or dairy fat.  Can someone comment?

Answer 1

http://www.questorganic.com/141/is-coconut-oil-good-for-you

 

I think you answered this yourself yogurtfreak!!!

Answer 2

The length of the fatty acid chains, saturated or not, dictates how the body handles the fat.   Medium chain fatty acids are not shot up into the arteries as atherogenic fat is the way I understand it.   

There are plentry of cultures that eat craploads of coconut without heart disease to further verify this.