bitter taste, but it really depends on what type you are eating or drinking as red are generally sweeter than white.
Grapefruit is historically a relatively young fruit. It was first discovered around 1750 in Barbados and was originally called “the forbidden fruit.” Since then, it has become ubiquitous. In the 1970s grapefruit was quite the rage with a popular grapefruit diet and many homes boasting a variety of grapefruit knives, spoons, and bowls.
But if you are a grapefruit hater, you may have good reason to avoid it.
Interactions between grapefruit juice and medications have been recognized since about 1989, when they were discovered accidentally during an unrelated experiment.
Now for the simplified science. The chemicals in grapefruit juice inhibit an enzyme system found in the intestine that breaks down some drugs before they are absorbed into the bloodstream. If combined with grapefruit juice, these drugs pass through untouched, allowing a higher amount to reach the bloodstream. This leads to higher levels of the drug in the blood and higher levels may cause significant side effects. But all drugs are broken down by the enzyme system that grapefruit juice blocks. Common drugs that are affected by grapefruit juice include the blood thinner Coumadin, some blood pressure lowering pills, seizure medications, cholesterol lowering drugs, and Viagra. If you are taking any prescription drugs, just ask your doctor or pharmacist and they can check for interactions.
ARE BLUEBERRIES GOOD FOR YOUR MEMORY?
I, Billy, often tell a story about one of the nurses from the ER where I work who said that she was trying to take ginkgo biloba to improve her memory. She told me that the only problem was that she kept forgetting to take it.
Everyone is searching for the perfect memory enhancer. The list of foods that are mentioned as memory helpers is a long one, including broccoli, carrots, onions, tomatoes, apples, pomegranates, soybeans, oysters, turkey, salmon, tuna, peanuts, almonds, and, yes, blueberries.
When it comes to fruit and vegetables, blueberries have some real potential. Blueberries are one of the richest sources of antioxidants. The specific compounds they contain are called anthocyanins. If you are an aficionado of antioxidant literature, you may also know that anthocyanins are a class of polyphenolic flavonoids. (If you read
People
magazine, you only know that Jennifer Flavin is the wife of Sylvester Stallone.) The antioxidants in blueberries have been shown to be present in the brains of long-lived rats, and although there isn’t a great deal of research on the long-term antiaging benefits, recent studies have shown blueberries to protect against or reverse some age-related memory loss.
In contrast, here are some things better off forgotten:
The time your grandma kissed you on the mouth
Howard Dean’s bellowing post-primary speech
The Steven Seagal solo album (yes, the martial arts guy),
Songs from the Crystal Cave
The time you fumbled hopelessly trying to unhook your first bra
The federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina
IS GREEN TEA REALLY GOOD FOR YOU?
This was a question that I really wanted to answer. I love a good sushi meal followed by a nice cup of green tea. What could be better than to find out that I aid my health with my own gluttony. So I searched for green tea in the medical database and hospital library and found 231 articles in the past year and a half. After leafing through reams of research, these were some of my favorite answers:
Catechin, an ingredient of green tea, protects murine microglia from oxidative stress-induced DNA damage and cell cycle arrest.
Green tea extract and epigallocatechin-3-gallate, the major tea catechin, exert oxidants but lack antioxidant activities.
Hepatoprotective effect of green tea (
Camellia sinensis
) extract against tamoxifen-induced liver injury in rats.
Protective effect of green tea polyphenols on the SH-SY5Y cells against 6-OHDA
Grapefruit is historically a relatively young fruit. It was first discovered around 1750 in Barbados and was originally called “the forbidden fruit.” Since then, it has become ubiquitous. In the 1970s grapefruit was quite the rage with a popular grapefruit diet and many homes boasting a variety of grapefruit knives, spoons, and bowls.
But if you are a grapefruit hater, you may have good reason to avoid it.
Interactions between grapefruit juice and medications have been recognized since about 1989, when they were discovered accidentally during an unrelated experiment.
Now for the simplified science. The chemicals in grapefruit juice inhibit an enzyme system found in the intestine that breaks down some drugs before they are absorbed into the bloodstream. If combined with grapefruit juice, these drugs pass through untouched, allowing a higher amount to reach the bloodstream. This leads to higher levels of the drug in the blood and higher levels may cause significant side effects. But all drugs are broken down by the enzyme system that grapefruit juice blocks. Common drugs that are affected by grapefruit juice include the blood thinner Coumadin, some blood pressure lowering pills, seizure medications, cholesterol lowering drugs, and Viagra. If you are taking any prescription drugs, just ask your doctor or pharmacist and they can check for interactions.
ARE BLUEBERRIES GOOD FOR YOUR MEMORY?
I, Billy, often tell a story about one of the nurses from the ER where I work who said that she was trying to take ginkgo biloba to improve her memory. She told me that the only problem was that she kept forgetting to take it.
Everyone is searching for the perfect memory enhancer. The list of foods that are mentioned as memory helpers is a long one, including broccoli, carrots, onions, tomatoes, apples, pomegranates, soybeans, oysters, turkey, salmon, tuna, peanuts, almonds, and, yes, blueberries.
When it comes to fruit and vegetables, blueberries have some real potential. Blueberries are one of the richest sources of antioxidants. The specific compounds they contain are called anthocyanins. If you are an aficionado of antioxidant literature, you may also know that anthocyanins are a class of polyphenolic flavonoids. (If you read
People
magazine, you only know that Jennifer Flavin is the wife of Sylvester Stallone.) The antioxidants in blueberries have been shown to be present in the brains of long-lived rats, and although there isn’t a great deal of research on the long-term antiaging benefits, recent studies have shown blueberries to protect against or reverse some age-related memory loss.
In contrast, here are some things better off forgotten:
The time your grandma kissed you on the mouth
Howard Dean’s bellowing post-primary speech
The Steven Seagal solo album (yes, the martial arts guy),
Songs from the Crystal Cave
The time you fumbled hopelessly trying to unhook your first bra
The federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina
IS GREEN TEA REALLY GOOD FOR YOU?
This was a question that I really wanted to answer. I love a good sushi meal followed by a nice cup of green tea. What could be better than to find out that I aid my health with my own gluttony. So I searched for green tea in the medical database and hospital library and found 231 articles in the past year and a half. After leafing through reams of research, these were some of my favorite answers:
Catechin, an ingredient of green tea, protects murine microglia from oxidative stress-induced DNA damage and cell cycle arrest.
Green tea extract and epigallocatechin-3-gallate, the major tea catechin, exert oxidants but lack antioxidant activities.
Hepatoprotective effect of green tea (
Camellia sinensis
) extract against tamoxifen-induced liver injury in rats.
Protective effect of green tea polyphenols on the SH-SY5Y cells against 6-OHDA
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