Professor Harvard calls coconut oil a poison

Speaking by Professor - Dr. Karin Michels, director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Tumor Prevention (University of Freiburg - Germany), has just caused a storm when calling coconut oil a "pure poison".

Professor - Dr. Karin Michels, a professor of Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (Harvard University - USA) and director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Tumor Prevention (University of Freiburg - Germany), has just Surprisingly when declaring coconut oil is a "pure poison".

Professor - Dr. Karin Michels - (photo taken from the clip of the University of Freiburg).

The report, titled "Coconut Oil and Other Nutritional Errors", was presented at the University of Freiburg. Aiming at the trend of using coconut oil in eating and drinking in the hope of losing weight, anti-aging in recent years. However, Professor Michels affirmed: " Coconut oil is one of the worst foods you can eat ."

According to her, fatty acids in coconut oil are mostly saturated fats - the type of fat that is common in animal fats and is harmful to health. Considering the length of the carbon chain, only 14% of the fat in coconut oil has the average carbon chain length, the rest are long chain fatty acids. The longer the chain of carbon in fatty acids, the more harmful it is.

Coconut oil should not be used in eating - (photo: The New York Post).

In terms of fat, cooking with coconut oil is even more harmful than cooking with lard, butter or eating a fatty piece of beef.

According to a recent national survey, up to 70% of Americans mistakenly believe coconut oil is a "super food" . Agreeing with the views of Professor Michels, Ms. Lily Soutter, a leading nutritionist in London (UK), told the Independent newspaper that coconut oil is advertised with many health benefits, boosting the immune system. translate, even help . treat Alzheimer's. However, neuroscientists oppose this.

This is not the first time experts and reputable agencies have warned about the movement of using coconut oil in eating. At the end of December 2017, the American Heart Association (AHA) made the recommendation. Coconut oil increases high levels of bad cholesterol, thereby increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

According to AHA, coconut oil contains 6 times more saturated fat than olive oil and only needs a small teaspoon of coconut oil, you have to load up to 13 g saturated fat, the maximum limit that AHA gives. if you don't want heart disease

Coconut oil raises bad cholesterol, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Another Harvard professor is a professor - Dr. Qi Sun also raised a consensus with AHA on The New York Times. Many people believe that coconut oil contains antioxidants phytochemicals so it's good. According to Professor Qi Sun, phytochemicals exist only in pure coconut oil, while the market type is usually refined. And even if you find the pure type, its antioxidant effects are also extremely small compared to the effects on the cardiovascular system.

The experts and organizations mentioned above recommend that people put coconut oil together in animal fat group, consider all of them to be harmful to health. Should be replaced with vegetable fats such as olive oil, sesame oil, soybean oil . These oils contain mostly unsaturated fats, good for your cardiovascular system and cholesterol levels.