[addicted]

Kerala also has significantly higher literacy rates than the rest of India. It seems like a state that is overall an outlier, so I suspect there are far too many confounding factors to confidently determine whether the diet is the root cause of a higher life expectancy.

[skookum]

There's a bit of "the dose makes the poison" at play here as well: Cooking with coconut oil is one thing. Making bulletproof coffee with 2-3 tbsp of coconut oil per serving is quite another.

[pochamago]

Agreed, but it certainly undermines the idea that coconut oil is absolutely terrible for you