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Originally Posted by Dead_Meat
Does that mean if you want to put on weight, that getting a cold will help, as the virus things will grow and there'll be more of them and therefore you'll weigh more?
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No, if anything getting a cold would make you lose weight (fractionally).
This is because your energy is going into making viruses and not body cells and the viruses eventually leave you (sneezed out etc) and as such your body is loisng energy (and thus weight) that way.
In the grand scheme of things not enough weight would be lost to be noticeable (viruses weigh very little).