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    Deadly grapefruit


    I bought my evening meal from a Sainsbury's last night on the way to my hotel. I picked up some grapefruit juice by mistake - I had intended to pick up orange, guess the boxes were close together. Wasn't too fussed though as I like grapefruit juice.

    Whilst eating my food and enjoying the juice back in my room a little late, I got to wondering why I had not had grapefruit juice for a while. I used to drink a lot of it. It came vaguely to my mind that the statins I take to reduce my cholesterol levels (this hotel life style is not great for health eating) had a problem with grapefruit juice. Surely not I thought. Grapefruit is healthy. As I had the tables with me but no box with information leaflet inside, I called my wife to check the small print and sure enough, it says do not eat grapefruits or drink the juice of them.

    Too late. I decided that one night probably wouldn't be a problem. Did a surf this evening to check it out. Oops. Even one glass can be enough to cause problems. Hope I am okay. Obviously not going to drink grapefruit again. Shame.

    A few links to articles covering this topic:

    About.com
    Daily Mail
    NHS

    Tags » cholesterol grapefruit health simvastin statins
    • 9 September 2009
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