[...] The idea, if not the exact wording, dates back to 1574, when a dictionary maker named Withals wrote, "Fasting is a great remedie of feuer."WebMD goes a bit further, and gives lots of advice on How to Feed a Cold:
You're thinking: this guy wrote a dictionarie? His medical advice wasn't so hot either. Doctors have been trying to stamp out the above piece of folklore for years. Current medical thinking is that you want to keep an even strain when you're sick with either a cold or a fever, and you certainly don't want to stress your system by stuffing or starving yourself.
Nobody's sure where the notion of feeding colds and so on arose. (It surely didn't originate with Withals.) One somewhat dubious explanation has it that the proverb really means "If you feed a cold now, you'll have to starve a fever later." A more plausible interpretation is that the feed-a-cold idea arose out of a folk understanding of the disease process, namely that there were two kinds of illnesses, those caused by low temperatures (colds and chills) and those caused by high temperatures (fever). If you had a chill, you wanted to stoke the interior fires, so you pigged. If you had a fever, you didn't want things to overheat, so you slacked off on the fuel. [...]
Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever?
Do you starve a cold and feed a fever when you're feeling under the weather? Or is it the other way around? Good news -- starving is never the correct answer. [...]Read the whole thing for detailed recommendations.
8 Lifestyle Tweaks for Restless Legs Syndrome
If you've got restless legs syndrome (RLS), your daily habits can make a difference to your condition.
Revamping your diet, exercise, and medications is just the beginning of what you can do to improve your RLS. You might even find some help in unexpected places. [...]
Can't Sleep? When to Get Out of Bed
You wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep.Read on for suggestions.
Whether you drank one cup of coffee too many earlier, or you've got a lot on your mind, it's time to decide whether to get up or stay in bed.
Getting out of bed makes sense at some point. Tossing and turning endlessly isn't going to help.
If you do get up, though, you're not giving up for the night. You still need rest. So your goal should be to get back to sleep as soon as possible.
Some activities help with that. Others put sleep even further out of reach.
What you do now, in the wee hours, will affect how the rest of your night goes. That could make all the difference in how you feel tomorrow. [...]
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