Red Grapefruit

[Lucky]

I really like red grapefruit. I get a dozen 8 oz. cups at Costco, and eat one each week after draining some of the juice. Yes, I add a bit of sugar.. Yummy! Try it with your toyboy!

[Suckrates]

However, you forgot to add the caution that Grapefruit (of any color) is toxic when eatten with certain medications such as Lipitor, so if you have High Blood pressure you will just have to eat your Boytoy au-naturel !

[Lucky]

No, I didn't forget. I chose not to post that slanderous accusation against red grapefruit. It wouldn't hurt a flea, especially when limited to 8 oz. per week- even less when considering the drained juice.

[TampaYankee]

No, I didn't forget. I chose not to post that slanderous accusation against red grapefruit. It wouldn't hurt a flea, especially when limited to 8 oz. per week- even less when considering the drained juice.

The combination won't kill you but grapefruit will compromise the absorption by the intestines of any statin thus reducing its effectiveness as a cholesterol med. There is a reason the statin directions say to avoid grapefruit. Lucky can ignore the instructions one day a week and probably live to tell about it. He probably won't even go bliind. But he might as well save his statin pill that day.

[Lucky]

Lucky me! I take Crestor!

Crestor and Grapefruit Although most statin drugs should not be taken in combination with grapefruit products, Crestor is an exception. While grapefruit can increase the levels of certain statins in a person's blood, Crestor and grapefruit do not seem to have this interaction.

[TampaYankee]

Lucky me! I take Crestor!

Crestor and Grapefruit Although most statin drugs should not be taken in combination with grapefruit products, Crestor is an exception. While grapefruit can increase the levels of certain statins in a person's blood, Crestor and grapefruit do not seem to have this interaction.

Crestor is a very good drug and it comes only at twice the price of Lipitor, which itself is probably five times the price of Simvastatin. Lucky for me I get by on the Simvastatin.

I do love grapefruit, especially red grapefruit. I miss it.

[Lucky]

My cardiologist is the one who suggested that infrequent grapefruit might not be so bad.

[Guest CharliePS]

I have a red grapefruit tree, which is currently loaded with fruit. Even though I like it, I don't want to eat more than one or two per day, so I usually end up giving most of it away.

[AdamSmith]

I don't want to eat more than one or two per day

That seems like enough! Although I love 'em, and envy your situation.

I read somewhere that when Queen Elizabeth thinks she needs to take off a few pounds, she puts herself on a grapefruit diet.

[RA1]

Does "this" Queen Elizabeth live next door or down the block? Surely you do not mean THE Queen Elizabeth who does not take off pounds but merely adds them to her collection (of pounds sterling).

I, among many others. lament the fact of grapefruit avoidance. Rather than risk any drug reactions and damage to my liver, I just avoid grapefruit. I have always liked grapefruit and upon avoiding it, like the idea of it that much more.

Fortunately, I know of no reason to avoid other citrus fruits and especially enjoy FL tangerines.

Best regards,

RA1

[lookin]

My cardiologist is the one who suggested that infrequent grapefruit might not be so bad.

Perhaps you pissed him off or something.

My ex-proctologist once told me that dietary fiber was highly overrated, but that was before I found out he was moonlighting as a mortician.

[Lucky]

Or a Roto-Rooter man!

[lookin]

If it's scat you're after, you might want to hold off till AdamSmith drops by. This thread's got fruit, fiber, and drugs. It shouldn't be long now.

[AdamSmith]

This thread's got fruit, fiber, and drugs. It shouldn't be long now.

With all that, I was having fun just watching how long the thread could hold itself in.