Nigel Turner and Jiming Ye from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of medical research compared that fat metabolism and insulin fight with mice fed coconut oil and fat based diets. The medium chain fatty acids such as all those found in the coconut oil behave like very differently to the fats which normally found in our diets.

Unlike the long and fatty acids that are present in animal fats, medium chain fatty acids are small enough to enter mitochondria that are the cells energy and are burning powerhouses that directly can then be converted to energy.
Fat storage is resolute by the balance between how much fat is taken by the cells and how much is burned for energy. When people eat a high amount of fatty food their bodies attempt to give back by raising their ability to oxidize fat. Largely, humans usually eat 40 to 50 percent of their calories as fat. Our mice were fed around 45 percent of their calories as fat. Their findings are now available online.