The Miraculous Benefits of Coconut Oil

The actual science for coconut oil: http://examine.com/supplements/Coconut+Oil/

I like how the only serious sentence written was completely wrong. Coconut oil has a few studies on being applied topically and all of them show benefits for your skin.

Yup - http://examine.com/supplements/Coconut+Oil/#main_clinical_re... "Skin Dryness" and "Skin Moisture"

Why is this on the front page?

Seems like the article as actually quite sarcastic about the benefits of coconut oil. From the article:

"So I stopped at a nearby children’s hospital and cured every child with a dropperful of coconut oil."

I want to show this to my wife, but afraid it will only serve to reinforce her reliance on Coconut Oil on everything we eat :-)

Is she from coastal south India? Because they really do use coconut oil for all cooking.

For those that aren't "getting it." This is in the humor section of the New Yorker. It's satire.

I remember a time where hn wasn't full of redditors...