Posted on 12/03/2015 2:55:41 PM PST by Theoria
The coconut has developed a bit of a faddish following in the West.
Today, devotees add coconut oil to coffee, dab it on acne and, following Gwyneth Paltrow's example, swirl it around in their mouths to fight tooth decay. Starbucks has launched a coconut-milk latte. And the coconut-water business has surged to $400 million, with a little help from Madonna and Rihanna.
No one would be more delighted at the coconut's rising star than August Engelhardt, a sun-worshipping German nudist and history's most radical cocovore.
From 1902 to 1919, Engelhardt lived on a beautiful South Pacific island, eating nothing but the fruit of Cocos nucifera, which he believed was the panacea for all mankind's woes. Except that a coconut mono-diet proved to be a terrible idea. At the end of his life, der Kokovore was reduced to a mentally ill, rheumatic, severely malnourished sack of bones with ulcers on his legs. He was only 44.
Engelhardt was resurrected from near-oblivion by Swiss writer Christian Kracht's marvelous 2012 novel, Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas, which fictionalizes the German cocovore's bizarre and poignant story. The English translation by Daniel Bowles was published this year in the U.S. to fine reviews.
Kracht's interest in Engelhardt was sparked by a chance encounter. One day at a yard sale in Murnau, Germany, he came across a sepia-tinted postcard of a scrawny, bearded man in a checked loincloth standing under a palm tree.
"He looked like a proto-hippie, and very modern," Kracht told The Salt. "I really wanted to get to know this person. But there was nothing known about him at the time — no Wikipedia page (there is one now) or anything at all. The only thing I could find was a thesis by a student at the University of Auckland.
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"Naked cocovorism is God's will. The pure coconut diet makes man immortal and united with God."
"The sun cocovore man is the man, as he should be. The coconut is the Philosopher's Stone. What are universities in comparison to such a lifestyle?"
"The Sun Order will settle first in Kabakon, and from there, the Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea and then the islands of the Pacific, including the tropical Central and South America, tropical Asia and equatorial Africa. I urge all frugivores and friends of the nature-friendly lifestyle, to help with the construction of the Palm Temple, and to participate in the creation of the frugivorous Empire."
No alternative health sites that discuss benefits of coconut oil have ever said be excessive about it and do what this guy did.
If you only ate romsine lettuce, or onky eggs, or only whatever, you would eventually end up wth deficiences. In a diet plan they are good things. Coconut oil is one of the best oils for your body. But not by itself, and not to an excess. And nobody today promotes it by itself or to excess as the way to go.
Yeah, but your truth won’t sell a story...
Sorry, but where do I get romsine lettuce and onky eggs?
I think Americans are largely crazy when it comes to health. Remember the Medicine Man? The health beliefs of Americans, both ordinary and prominent, is really weird. Read some social history. Stonewall Jackson used to suck lemons, hold his right arm up in the air to balance his health, and take in the waters. Today we have anti immunization freaks, vitamin freaks etc.
The fact that Gwyneth Paltrow recommends this is reason enough for me to swear off all coconut products forever.
Far better an obsession for coconut than the ongoing obsession for pumpkin. Pumpkin coffee, pumpkin beer, etc.
“Naked cocovorism is God’s will.”
No naked cocovoyeurism for me. The cops made that clear.
Except pizza
Oh, I don’t know about all products. Have you ever tried Talenti Caribbean Coconut Gelato? If you like Coconut, you’ll love it.
I cook with olive oil and coconut oil, and I use coconut milk in my coffee, along with some liquid Stevia and occasionally a little butter. It’s hard to imagine anyone living off of coconut by itself. That would mean giving up bacon.
Yecccchh.
Good one!
“...If you only ate romsine lettuce, or onky eggs, or only whatever, you would eventually end up wth deficiences...”
That’s why I always eat at least one Hostess Twinkie with each 6-pack of beer I drink. It’s the old basic food groups. Fat, alcohol, sugar, beer, bacon, starch and so forth.
Isn’t NPR the news source that offered Bill Clinton a BJ?
Americans have been lied to a oong time about what is healthy, from their government and so called experts. The low fat high carb diets and highly processed food crap is causing problems by people eating not shat they really need and eating “food” that has a lot of beneficial things taken out of it for shelf life, not nutrition. Eating tasty cardboard may taste good but if you dont give your body good building blocks to use you end up with deficiencies.
"Put it down, I said...YOU'RE ENJOYIN' IT TOO MUCH!"
(LOL, that was the first thing I thought someone shoulda said to her about her enema equipment!)
“Sorry, but where do I get romsine lettuce and onky eggs?”
In the lower drawer of my refrigerator, usually the one on the right side. Things that will breed with them are usually kept in the left drawer. My Oriental wife is a great cook, but not much of a biologist.
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