A lecture by a Harvard professor calling coconut oil "pure poison" has gone viral on YouTube, nearing 1 million views on Wednesday.
In a talk titled "coconut oil and other nutritional errors," Karin Michels, who is an adjunct professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says coconut oil is not healthy, calling it "poison" at least three times in the widely-circulated video, and "one of the worst foods" she can name. Michels is also the director of the Institute for Prevention and Tumor Epidemiology at the University of Freiburg in Germany.