WHEN COCONUT OIL took the world by storm a few years ago, I remember feeling a bit of a fond indifference to the health trend. I’m from the Philippines, one of the world’s largest producers of coconuts and its byproducts. So I thought awesome, finally, but also, tell me something I didn’t know. I spent childhood weekends playing under those tall skinny trees, I grew up on food using coconut milk, and I knew the nutty scent of the oil by heart. The irony is, it was never really a conscious choice to make coconut oil a daily habit.

Well that’s changed, A LOT…