Newswise — “Hey Jane, you ignored the brain,” quips Leslie Norins, MD, PhD, CEO of MCI911.com, the informational website for seniors coping with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a harbinger of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). He’s referring to a column by eminent health writer Jane Brody, in Science Times, a weekly section of the New York Times. She lambasts coconut oil for containing fatty acids that some cardiac gurus feel are bad for the heart.
She reported that Dr. Frank Sacks, nutrition and cardiovascular disease specialist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told her that for preparing an editorial he “. .could find nothing in the scientific literature to support advertising claims that coconut oil has some beneficial effects.”
“Ms. Brody and these heart experts should come out of their silos,” says Dr. Norins. The heart is not the…
