Depends on your room temperature if your coconut oil is oil or fat.
It seems to be around 76'. This time of the year my CO is fat, in the summer it stays liquid.
Many fats will actually raise your good cholesterol. Omega-3 fats seem to have lots of anti-inflammatory properties and, in fact, are an essential fat. We can't produce them ourselves, we have to get them from food we eat. It has been linked to lowering triglycerides (fats created from carbohydrates (mostly)), improving AS symptoms, decreasing depression and so on.
Many vitamins are fat soluable, meaning you must ingest them with fat in order to absorb them. So eating a salad without any fat is a waste of good nutrition. You'll absorb a lot more nutrients if you pour on a full-fat dressing, or eat the salad with nuts, than if you just squeeze lemon juice on it.
Fat has been unfairly demonized in the last 20 years, to the detriment of our health, IMHO.
