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Someday, You Might Be Able to Eat Your Way Out of a Cold

A nascent scientific field is working to untangle the complex relationship between metabolism and infection.

When it comes to treating disease with food, the quackery stretches back far. Through the centuries, raw garlic has been touted as a home treatment for everything from chlamydia to the common cold; Renaissance remedies for the plague included figs soaked in hyssop oil. During the 1918 flu pandemic, Americans wolfed down onions or chugged “fluid beef” gravy to keep the deadly virus at bay.

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