you are what you eat
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[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]- Personal health and wellbeing is determined by one's eating habits, in both positive and negative ways.
Translations
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