you are what you eat

English

Etymology

Semi-Calque of German Der Mensch ist, was er ißt (literally “The human/man is what he eats”), coined in 1850 by Ludwig Feuerbach in a review of Jacob Moleschott’s Lehre der Nahrungsmittel. Für das Volk (Erlangen, 1850). Compare German man ist, was man isst.

Proverb

you are what you eat

  1. Personal health and wellbeing is determined by one's eating habits, in both positive and negative ways.

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