The latest juice research Cranberry juice vs. cholesterol. Cranberry juice does more than fight urinary tract infections. It's also good for your heart, say investigators at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. They found diluted cranberry extract reduced the oxidation of bad LDL cholesterol. This makes such cholesterol less likely to invade artery walls.
Grapefruit juice amplifies drugs.
If you take the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin, better known as Mevacor, don't wash it down with grapefruit juice. New research at the University of Helsinki has found taking 6 ounces of grapefruit juice with 80 milligrams of lovastatin dramatically boosted blood concentration of the drug. Avoid taking grapefruit juice and the drug together, or have your doctor lower the dose to compensate. Grapefruit juice raises the risk of kidney stones. A Harvard study has linked beverage intake with new kidney stones in 81,093 women.