Health and fitness experts advise to starve a fever of exercise.

Don't stuff a cold lest you should be next obliged to starve a fever.

It's been circulating for ages that you should starve a fever and feed a cold.

The old attitude of mind represented by the proverb, "Feed a cold and starve a fever," has completely disappeared.

Within the hour, another friend assured me that it was policy to "feed a cold and starve a fever."

So far, so good for those who saw the Dutch research as supportive of the "Feed a cold, starve a fever" maxim.

Within the hour, another friend assured me that it was policy to "feed a cold and starve a fever." I had both.