I too have heard about foods high in lysine and others being high in arginine, but since i've had type 2 herpes i have seen no difference in regards to my ob's. I have come across posters who have mentioned that chocolate gave them ob's. The only things which seem to affect my herpes ob's are lack of quality sleep, stress/anxiety. I pretty much each what i want, but i rarely eat junk food and i've always eaten a well balanced diet.
I recently posted about a couple of new things i had come across in regards to helping control herpes and that was pepermint and also red wine. The red wine apparently is helpful to dab on the ob's as it helps prevent passing them on and halts them in their growth and it's due to the "resveratrol" found in red wine, they never mentioned drinking it, sham huh!!

Oh well, it is New Years Eve, so a glass or two tonight shouldn't do much harm. Happy New Year