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Fruit juices including grapefruit, orange and apple can dramatically reduce the effectiveness of heart and cancer drugs, it was claimed.Potentially the medicines could be rendered useless if they are taken at the same time as drinking juice, Canadian researchers said.

The evidence emerged from a study in which grapefruit juice was found to shut certain drugs out of the body.

Other fruit juices, notably orange and apple, are thought to have the same effect.

Patients consuming fruit or juice to be healthy run the risk of wiping out the benefits of their medicines - among them vital treatments for heart disease, cancer, organ transplant rejection and infection, the scientists warned.

For 20 years it has been known that grapefruit juice can boost the potency of some drugs, increasing the risk of an overdose.

The new research, presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, US, shows that other drugs may be effected in the opposite way by fruit juices.

In tests, healthy volunteers took fexofenadine - an antihistamine used to fight allergies.

They swallowed the drug with either a single glass of grapefruit juice, water containing naringin - the chemical responsible for the fruit's bitter taste - or plain water and when the medicine was taken with grapefruit juice, only half as much of the drug was absorbed into the body as it was with water.

Study leader Professor David Bailey, from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, said losing half of a drug dose could be critical.  http://tinyurl.com/55a4p5

I knew that grapefruit juice can be critical, but apple juice, too, I didn't know. In Germany we like to drink a mixture of apple juice and mineral water - Apfelsaftschorle we call it. It's rather refreshing when you are very thirsty.

I dont think these surveys are always right,Its the chemicals they put in them that do the damage.
I only ever eat butter,none of this low fat/low cholesterol,sunflower rubbish for me far too many additives !
my cholersterol is 4.2 !

Mac,  Well done and keep it steady. we too get so fedup with all these's  This is Good??  This is bad??
WHO ?? Really Knows the correct answer ??

I make it last a whole month Phoenix lol

Mac, you may be right - they always make new discoveries.

New Discoveries ???  Or, is it simply Trying to justify their jobs ????????

Maybe, but better a "useless" job than no job at all.

IF  Only the people could Believe in Something and Somebody ??

I agree, no job is to be looked down on, one of our cousins lad has got himself a little job after 5 years of doing nothing, it will never amount to high pay but who cares, its work and his mum is so proud and rightly so, he used to be up all night and sleep all day, now he's at least got a real life, he's had it for a year now so fingers crossed he will keep it.

I hope so too Val,he can hold his head up now and take pride in himself.Best of luck to him.