With the onset of flu season, many start to lean on citrus, but is it correct? Eating citrus fruits may cause ailments, warn scientists.
Take a grapefruit. The study showed scientists from the canadian institutes of health Lawrence, grapefruit juice can be dangerous when combined with medications. It contains substances furanokumariny that stimulate the excretion of enzymes necessary for absorption of drugs. In this case sharply increases from the potentially toxic effects of their components on tissue and organs – it is, as scientists have calculated, is increased 2-10 times.
Insidious grapefruit in another respect. It was found that bioactive substances present in this fruit can affect the metabolism of the female hormone estrogen and to increase the risk of developing breast cancer.
In addition, grapefruit is a strong allergen. Only slightly inferior to him in ability to provoke allergies oranges and lemons. The scientists of Leeds University were able to detect that the habit of daily drinking orange juice might lead to gout (an inflammatory disease of the joints). Enough glasses of orange juice a day to the risk of acquiring the disease increased by more than 40%, they have established.
Also necessary to carefully control the consumption of tangerines. According to experts, the peel of tangerines is often treated with chemical compounds to increase shelf life. In such mixtures, in particular, may include ethylene, is able to accumulate in the liver and destroy it.
Earlier Magicforum wrote that in the bread and bakery products may contain substances that cause cancer.