Coconut oil is ‘poison’

IT has been touted as a miracle ingredient that can help you lose weight, with Angelina Jolie reportedly having a spoonful at breakfast.

But coconut oil has now been denounced as “pure poison” by a senior academic. Dr Karin Michels of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health said the fashionable oil is “one of the worst foods you can eat”.

She said it was ‘worse than lard’ due to its high level of saturated fat and added: ‘There isn’t one human study that has found a positive outcome from coconut oil.”