health benefits of coconut oil

Shape Tells Readers all about Coconut Oil

We’ve been talking, tweeting, blogging and posting to all of our coconut oil fans about all of the benefits of this super-food when incorporated into your daily diet. But it always helps to have someone else reinforcing the same message. (You know, like when you tell your significant other something but he only believes it when someone else tells him the SAME thing.) This month, we got some help from one of our favorite magazines, Shape. Matt Kadey, MS, RD shared his expertise with the monthly fitness magazine on why coconut oil is a good fat to incorporate into your meals. Yes, […]

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Benefits of a Home Birth

If there is one thing that I am extremely passionate about it is natural child birth. I’m a pretty quiet person but if you start talking about child birth I will definitely express my opinion, just ask all of the others in the office! I cannot fathom the idea of going your whole pregnancy with doctors telling you not to take any medications and then you get to the hospital to deliver your child and they want to give you all of these medications when your child is about to enter the world! My biggest issue with hospitals is the […]

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The City of Brotherly Love is Coconuts!

It was a whirlwind trip to Philadelphia and back for the Kelapo team. As soon as our plane landed, we stopped by the American Diabetes Association to drop off samples and talk about the benefits of coconut oil for those affected by the disease. According to Information About Diabetes, an online resource for those with the disease, coconut oil is useful because it:        Supports the secretion of insulin        Improves insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance        Stimulates metabolism which promotes insulin manufacture and our cells absorption of glucose        Slows the […]

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