On Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:57:59 AM UTC-6, l not -l wrote:
> On 2-Mar-2013, James Silverton > wrote:
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> > I was eating a grapefruit this morning, which had just the right
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> > of sweet and sour and it occurred to me that such pink grapefruits are
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> > my favorite fruit. They beat out my next favorites: properly ripe
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> > seedless grapes and yellow kiwi fruit.
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> > I wonder what are other people's favorite fruits?
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> Grapefruit is definitely my favorite; grapefruit, grapefruit juice, and
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> grapefruit soda (Shasta and Squirt). Sadly, I had to give it up a few
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> years ago because it has an adverse interaction with a medication I must
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> take.<sigh> Now, I get my grapefruit fix only in soda form; there isn't
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> any significant amount of the real thing in the soda.
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If you enter the words "grapefruit" and "verapamil" into Google, the first
result is this article-
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/589497

The article got one thing wrong. The patient had not been drinking
large amounts of grapefruit juice "due to her nausea." No, she was
drinking large amounts of grapefruit juice because she likes grapefruit
juice, and it was on the breakfast buffet at the Best Western in Grants,
New Mexico, and the one in Gallup, where we had stayed on vacation.

We took the Amtrak back, and that evening, my wife--the "42-year-old
female"--almost died. Dr. Pillai was her nephrologist at St. Mary's
Hospital. It was a trip when I ran across the article, and realized
who the patient was.

--Bryan