Is it a myth or fact eating chicken while ill is bad ?

Question

got told from both my dad and mum after i ate KFC chicken when im sick.

Answer 1

Hahah, what about chicken noodle soup? The timeless cold remedy... Or is it starve a cold, feed a fever?

And please don't eat KFC, that stuff is so nasty :[

Answer 2

I have never heard of that one before

Answer 3

Then eat not KFC chicken.

Try eat any other sort of Chicken in the vicinity of your Chinese friends, or relatives, etc.  , when you feel sick, or is sick.

They are most likely to warn you not to do so.

Got it?

Do you believe Chinese medicine? They might as well advise you to try that.

And it indeed helps.

Answer 4

chicken is actually GOOD for you when you're ill.  Tell them to stick THAT in their pipe and smoke it.  Maybe next time have some chicken soup instead of a KFC lol!

Answer 5

It's the fat that's bad in KFC, not the chicken.

Answer 6

i dont think so

Answer 7

i do not believe it to be fact. However, i do not believe that it qualifies as a myth, or Ol' Wive's Tale, or anything of that sort at all! i am a major in mythology and i know that people make things like that up to explain phenomena that happen around them. Perhaps your great grand-father/-mother had a mishap with a chicken thigh when he/she was sick and thought it good to pass the info down.

And for all of u answering with the chicken soup. You are correct. it is good for u. but has nothing to do with the chicken itself. i myself love chicken! but i pick it out of my soup when i have a cold. it is the broth and noodles i want! i want the almost pure protein from the broth (third water, 2/3 pure broth in your regular campbells C&N soup) and the carbohydrates (to fight fatigue) from the noodles. I dont want my body to have to digest meat to get to the other nutrients.

so there u have it. sorry it was so long. i felt the question merrited a nice answer.

Answer 8

Well eating KFC is a little questionable in itself! :)

But no, there is nothing wrong with eating properly cooked chicken.

That is the catch though, PROPERLY cooked, when you are sick your white blood cell count is going to drop.  Your immune system is compromised.

Improperly prepared chicken is a breeding ground for bacteria.

Answer 9

actually we should retrain from eating oily food during we r ill..we can actually recover faster that way.. kfc.. wow haven been eating that since.. ahah

Answer 10

dont think so ...they say eat chicken soup so

but than again fried food isnt that good for you but its definitely not bad while your ill