2024-12-18
11 分钟You know that old adage that you should feed a cold but starve a fever? It’s an ancient idea and what’s surprising is that it’s kind of correct. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff.
There's Chuck, and I'm Josh, and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave.
So this is Short Stuff.
That's right.
Call it Old Wives Tale Edition, because this is about feeding a cold and starving a fever, which is the Old Wives tale that when you have a cold, you should and originally started out as stuff a cold, like eat as much as you can, and then if you have a fever, you should try and not eat very much at all.
Yeah, I think most people have heard that, right?
That's a pretty.
Pretty widespread adage.
Sure.
Our friends at the Cleveland Clinic, not normally known for their etymology resources, but they trace this back at least half of it to 1574.
There's a dictionary that was compiled by a guy named John Withells, and Withels said that fasting is a great remedy of fever.
So you got the second part right there.
Starve a fever.