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Important: If you're taking statins or medications for conditions like high blood pressure, cholesterol, heart arrhythmia, organ transplants, or allergies, it can be dangerous to eat grapefruit.
You’ve heard you shouldn’t drink grapefruit juice to wash down your meds, but you’ve also heard that the pink fruit has health benefits. Here’s what you need to know about grapefruit.
[34] [35] Bitter oranges (such as the Seville oranges often used in marmalade) can interfere with drugs [38] including etoposide, a chemotherapy drug, some beta blocker drugs used to treat high blood pressure, and cyclosporine, taken by transplant patients to prevent rejection of their new organs. [12] Evidence on sweet oranges is more mixed. [11]
Grapefruit. Grapefruit packs in a ton of nutrients for very few calories (half a grapefruit contains just 52 calories), making it one of the best-value fruits out there.High in vitamin C and ...
The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi) is a subtropical citrus tree known for its relatively large, sour to semi-sweet, somewhat bitter fruit. [1] The flesh of the fruit is segmented and varies in color from pale yellow to dark red. Grapefruit is a citrus hybrid that originated in Barbados in the 18th century.
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice have been found to interact with numerous drugs, in many cases resulting in adverse effects. [4] This happens in two ways: one is that grapefruit can block an enzyme which metabolizes medication, [5] and if the drug is not metabolized, then the level of the drug in the blood can become too high, leading to an adverse effect. [5]
The DASH diet reduced systolic blood pressure by 6 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 3 mm Hg in patients with high normal blood pressure (formerly called "pre-hypertension"). Those with hypertension dropped by 11 and 6 mm Hg, respectively. These changes in blood pressure occurred with no changes in body weight.
“A common myth is that you will not develop high blood pressure if you do not have a family history of high blood pressure or heart disease,” says Marjorie Nolan Cohn, M.S., RD, LDN, a ...