As doctors warn it can cause a dangerous reaction with a host of common drugs... 1  Researchers warn that grapefruit reacts with many medicines. 2  The fruit can cause devastating side-effects from stomach bleeding to kidney problems. 3  Doctors say the public is ignorant to the dangers and putting themselves needlessly at risk.
According to the definition of the question (based on light reflection and not light emission), a well-polished mirror is the the whitest substance on earth. The main reflection layer is usually made out of silver.
The pampas bevel up to the altiplano, the foothills of the Andes, where alluvial salt pans give way to lofty white-capped volcanoes that march along the continental divide, reaching 20,000 feet (6,096 meters). At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, the Atacama is known as the driest place on Earth. There are sterile, intimidating stretches where rain has never been recorded, at least as long as humans have measured it.