Health Pointers - VCO - Virgin Coconut Oil

I am doing two jobs at the same time, vacuuming the floor while writing this posting. How convenient. The whirring of the robot vacuum cleaner with its soft lights blinking soothes the nerves or is it the thought of the job being made easy that is soothing? I wonder.

I mentioned a trip to my Alma Mater in my earlier posting here. I had for sometime been looking for virgin coconut oil (VCO) which is touted as one natural oil whose food value exceeds other oils in the market. There are even claims that the developed world, in their quest to promote their agricultural products like soya and peanuts, has hoodwinked the whole world by falsely claiming superiority of their product over coconut oil and claiming VCO for causing adverse health conditions like high cholesterol. The truth is out now. Numerous research and studies have been conducted on the virtues and intrinsic values of VCO. You can read all of them by searching VCO on the net and http://www.thevirgincoconutoil.com/, is one of them that provides a wealth of information. When I was a little kid I remember granny, both sides, and mum too using coconut oil for almost anything, cooking and frying, keeping some in a jar and placing nice smelling flower petals in it which is later used as hair-oil, taking some in a small bowl and placing one or two cloves of pounded garlic in the oil which is later used in massaging tired legs and muscles, and a myriad of other uses, too many to mention. As a kid I used to have skin problems especially at the back of the knee and at the fold of the forearm which was well treated with coconut oil. Mum would rub coconut oil on my tummy whenever I complained of tummy aches. There are many more uses of coconut oil. However, over the years, the dependence on coconut oil waned with the onslaught of advertisements over the health values of peanut oils, soya oils, polyunsaturated oils and others of similar lies. The demand for VCO slowly decreased over the years until it is so difficult to get any now! Very strong and very subtle this onslaught by the super nations to deny a share in the market for edible oil from the developing countries, the third world and the backward nations, most of all of which has plentiful coconuts.

I checked out the shops, supermarkets and hypermarkets for VCO but none of them carry it in their stock. I then tried several pharmacies and one of them had it in capsule form which was not what I want. Ram even tried making VCO but it is quite a hassle as it takes quite several hours to produce it and all you get in the end is just two or three tablespoons of oil from one coconut. A couple of weeks ago I visited a couple, a very close family friend, in fact he was my housemate when we were bachelors and we were just starting work then. We are close but we rarely meet as we now live in different towns. This couple operates a spa and a healing outlet. Naturally when we were there the topic of our discussion was the spa and health. That’s when I mentioned VCO and they were aware of the high value of it in terms of maintenance of good health and healing. They mentioned that one department in my Alma Mater, the Chemical Engineering School runs a research centre, the Chemical Engineering Pilot Plant (CEPP). It is at this school that they obtain technical support for their spa. One of the research products of CEPP is VCO. This product is sold to the public. So, it will be very convenient for me to obtain VCO. Special classes are conducted in CEPP for entrepreneurs to learn the technique and the machineries necessary to produce VCO in commercial scales. I will consider attending one of this classes later.

So it was, one fine day last week, we drove to my Alma Mater in KL, braving the traffic jams, and located this CEPP outlet. True enough, they have VCO for sale and they also have other products made in the pilot plants which are located in the main campus in JB, some 350 kilometers south. We got the VCO that we want and we found out that the person who is in-charge of this outlet lives not too far away from my house. How very convenient. We need not brave the KL traffic jams now to obtain our VCO supply. Furthermore my youngest sister and her husband lecture at the south campus in JB. They did check out the availability of VCO supply at the main CEPP outlet there and there were plenty of different packing sizes. So I can be assured of regular supply of VCO.

I encourage readers of my postings to search VCO on the net and read of the possible benefits that can be derived from the use of VCO. Have fun reading and try VCO out sometime. I hope it will be beneficial to you as well……….

MKI Ramblings Unlimited
Petaling Jaya.