How to Eat Right When You Have a Cold

Feed a cold and starve a fever, goes the old saying. But how should you consider eating when sick? Nutrition expert Brian St. Pierre examines the evidence. He also shares some guidelines on what to eat, and what to avoid, next time you come down with a virus or infection.

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As with most trials and tribulations in life, when we get sick we start to think of food.
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Try as we might, there's really very little we can do, once cold and flu season starts, to give ourselves iron-clad protection. We wash our hands, we take lots of Vitamin C, we dose ourselves with zinc lozenges, but still, each year millions of Americans will suffer from the common cold more than once. When we have a cold all we can do is eat...

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