For so many women of a certain age, the word grapefruit sends us reeling back several decades in time, when the grapefruit diet was all the rage. As it turns out, the creators of the grapefruit diet ...

Despite the varying degrees of bitterness, all grapefruits contain a flavonoid called naringin that’s responsible for its sharp flavor. Previous research found that the juice vesicles and seeds in ...

In 1926 in Hollywood, a man named Wilson Mizner opened a restaurant in the shape of an enormous hat. It was an era of novelty buildings (igloos, ice cream cones, hot dogs, etc), bizarre spectacles and ...

Welcome to Never Fail, a weekly column where we wax poetic about the recipes that never, ever let us down. When Claire Saffitz publishes a new cake recipe, particularly a loaf cake recipe, I adjust my ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Consuming a large quantity of grapefruit juice has effects on the QT interval in healthy adults similar to those seen with moxifloxacin, an antibiotic with known QT-prolonging ...

Roughly a century ago, a new fad diet began to sweep the United States. Hollywood starlets such as Ethel Barrymore supposedly swore by it; the citrus industry hopped on board. All a figure-conscious ...