Inuk's Igloo : The Phun Random Chat Thread!

Hi Throbby!

 

Hi one, throbbn!

 

Looks like a nice chair one.

 

Hey HC!

Hey T-O!

Hey PM!

 

it is. found it when I was looking for a new one, didn't really like the ones they had there, but I asked if they had anything a bit more comfy. and the dude took this out, and it was on sale that week for half price.. bought one on the spot.

 

got to go out for a bit... bbl!

 

Later one.

 

cya T-O!

I'm researching Kate Upton.

 

Kate is a fine subject to research.

 

I've mastered most of the limited materials available. My thirst for knowledge is not sated.

Looks like a few new articles coming up ...

 

Gotta vacuum now.

 

you know, I'm kinda fuggin hungry.

 

Morning inuk. What's to eat?

 

bacon and eggs there pm, but later on.

how was work?

 

is it "feed a cold, starve a fever" or the other way around?


if all this mucus i have would get burned up by stomach acid, i'd be set

 

Big truck and they let me stay, so it was OK.

Bacon and eggs sounds good!

 

morning lager, starve a cold feed a fever is what I was told.

oh yeah cool aboot work there pm!

 

From Wiki Answers...

"People, the phrase is from Chaucer in "The Canterbury Tales." In Middle English, the phrase was "Fede a cold and starb ob feber" translated as "feed a cold and DIE of fever." It wasn't medical advice, it was a cautionary statement: If you eat when you're sick, you'll die of fever.

Because so many people didn't eat when they were sick and they died, "starb" became "starve" and the definition was changed from just "die" to "die from lack of food." Considering that people at that time believed bathing caused illness (hence the wearing of perfumed pomanders to hold at your nose to ward of the stench of the person you were talking to), and that Jews were the cause of the Black Plague, I'm thinking even if they meant it as medical advice, it's probably not something we should be taking seriously today!

The adage is "Starve a fever, feed a cold." It makes sense if you think about having the flu vs. a cold. A flu is an intense reaction that takes a lot of metabolic activity. Digestion is a demanding task. As a fever is usually short lived (1-3 days), not eating may be a better way of allowing your body to contribute the maximum amount of metabolic activity to recovery. If the fever lasts longer, then maintaining adequate available energy may become a problem. Natural doctors recommend diluted vegetable (preferred) or fruit juice (unsweetened) for energy during an illness.

A cold lasts 7-14 days. As the infection primarily involves the mucous membranes of the head and neck, systemic challenges aren't as pronounced. As the system isn't as stressed as with a flu, there's less need to reduce demands on the digestive system. It stands to reason that, even if you're eating with a cold, less demanding foods (hard to digest foods, lots of food, complex foods) will be more supportive of the body as a whole.

If your body is a furnace, food is the fuel. Simple foods are more like gasoline, complex foods more like green wood. You don't want to dampen the fire, and you do have to feed it. Our bodies have sufficient reserves to manage 3 days of light activity without adverse effects (assuming that we're otherwise healthy) A week of fasting in the winter (the normal time for colds and flus) isn't recommended anywhere that I know of."

 

lol

whatever! when i'm done working i'm going to grab a big sandwich on the way home and then lay in bed the rest of the day.
hope the laptop is charged