What is your choice of a Cooking Oil? Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS, FICS, FIACS, MBBS, AM (Sing)-Health writer   75 years ago, we had only one brand of cooking oil for all purposes and that was coconut oil. Those who lived in that era would remember how fresh thick amber colored sweet appetite smelling oil was doled out into your bottle from a container with a vertical handled spoon, at any grocer. That oil was fresh, unprocessed stone ground, and was used for deep frying, adding onto dough making flat bread, and so on. It became the favorite oil in the Food industry including biscuit manufacturers. It was applied even on the scalp for hair growth, dandruff, and shine. Cholesterol numbers were never heard of and people suffered more from communicable diseases like malaria, syphilis, tuberculosis and gastroenteritis due to poor sanitation.  If it was chest pain, it ...