Turns Out Coconut Oil Might Actually Be Unhealthy—Here’s How You Should Really Use It

You practically need a scorecard to keep track of nutrition trends (remember when kale was cool?), so nobody would blame you for tuning out the hype. But when a Harvard hotshot trashes a highly touted “superfood,” declaring it the worst thing you could eat, just about everyone takes notice.

The Harvard professor called coconut oil 'pure poison.'

That’s what happened recently when Karin Michels, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, gave a lecture entitled "Coconut Oil and Other Nutritional Errors." The take-away from the talk—which went viral to the tune of 1.2 million views in one month—was that coconut oil is “pure poison.”