Not too many years ago, it was found that drinking grapefruit juice while taking certain medications could affect the medication, making it much stronger than it should be. Since then, there have been warnings to check with your pharmacist if you like to drink grapefruit juice. It’s not that you can’t have it, it’s just that you shouldn’t drink it within a certain time of having your meds.
Medications affected by grapefruit juice include medications to treat high cholesterol, such as simvastatin (Zocor), lovastatin (Mevacor), and atorvastatin (Lipitor); for seizures, carbamazepine (Carbatrol, Tegretol); blood pressure medications, felodipine (Plendil), nifedipine (Procardia), nimodipine …read more

Always, I have equated grapefruit to weight loss. Grapefruit juice has always been recommended in any weight-loss diet. There was one time in my life I actually bought grapefruit juice, not because I wanted to lose weight but because I was curious what it tastes like.
Guess what? It was the most awful sour juice I’ve ever tasted in my whole life. No wonder you’ll lose weight because after a sip of grapefruit juice I immediately lost my appetite for food. I just find the taste so awful I couldn’t eat anything anymore afterwards.
That was my first and last brush with …read more