English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
you are what you eat
- Personal health and wellbeing is determined by one's eating habits, in both positive and negative ways.
Translations[edit]
proverb
- Catalan: ets el que menges
- Danish: du er hvad du spiser
- Dutch: je bent wat je eet
- Estonian: oled see, mida sööd
- Finnish: olet mitä syöt
- French: tu es ce que tu manges, vous êtes ce que vous mangez
- German: man ist, was man isst, man ist, was man ißt (traditional spelling)
- Hungarian: az vagy, amit megeszel
- Icelandic: þú ert það sem þú borðar (is)
- Norwegian: du er hva du spiser
- Polish: jesteś tym, co jesz
- Portuguese: você é o que você come
- Russian: ты то́, что ты е́шь (ty tó, što ty jéšʹ)
- Spanish: de lo que se come se cría, eres lo que comes
- Swedish: man blir vad man äter
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