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10 Foods to Help Fight the Flu

We are officially in the heart of cold and flu season, and it isn’t going away any time soon. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the ominous season lasts from November through April. It has been a brutal one this year, and it seems more uncommon these days to run into someone who isn’t sick.

Let’s face it. Life is really busy. Shuffling the demands of work, family and extracurricular activities can be very overwhelming. Sometimes (okay, a lot of the time), it is necessary to rely on fast food chains to provide our daily nutrition. Sound ironic? It doesn’t have to be.

When you must make that drive through run (and we all have to at one point or another), here are a few options that won’t leave you feeling full of grease . . . or guilt: