Coconut oil could be a pure poison according to a new report.

Do you often use coconut oil ? Beware, because the ingredient could be harmful to your health, according to a new report. It’s often portrayed as a healthy alternative to other oils, but it seems that coconut oil may not be as good for you as thought. Speaking at Harvard University, Dr Karin Michels, an expert in epidemiology at the university, called coconut oil ‘one of the worst foods you can eat’. She even went so far to describe the oil as ‘pure poison.’ During her talk, titled ‘Coconut Oil and other Nutritional Errors’, Dr Michels explained that eating superfoods was unnecessary, because we already get enoug Dr Karin Michels, who also heads up the tumor research center at the University of Freiburg, made the statement in a 50-minute talk in Germany last month. The video, which has amassed more than 400,000 hits since it was published on July 10, will add fuel to the fiery debate over the oil's nutritional properties; many have turned to coconuts as a guilt-free fat, but even the American Heart Association has urged consumers to restrict their use. The coconut oil is about 86 per cent saturated fat.This is about one-third more than in butter.Dr Michels says it is worse than lard.