By Maryann Tomovich Jacobsen, MS, RD. Youâve done everything you can think of to prevent it, but it happens anyway â you get sick with the cold or the flu. It might be tempting to run to your comfort foods to make you feel better, but that may not be the best thing for your body as itâs fighting off an infection.
a person keenly interested in food, especially in eating or cooking. Origin of foodie. food + -ie, perhaps in part extracted from junkie.
Foodie is a relatively recent addition to our language (dating from the early 1980s), but it derives from a much older word, food, which has been with us for as long as there has been anything that could be called English.