> [Coconut oil protected animals from poison-induced [[diabetes]], yet Randle described the [[inhibition]] of glucose oxidation by free fatty acids. I'm trying to reconcile the above two facts; is coconut oil exempt from becoming free fatty acids and competing with glucose in the randle cycle?] Relative to [[PUFA]], yes. When the body contains a lot of [[PUFA]], eating coconut oil increases oxidative metabolism, partly because of the shorter fatty acids that are more quickly oxidized, like [[sugar]], and partly because of the antimetabolic effects of the [[PUFA]] that they displace. More recently, several investigators have found that a “deficiency of essential fatty acids” is highly protective against [[diabetes]].