you are what you eat

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What does you are what you eat mean?

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

Where does you are what you eat come from?

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.

How to pronounce you are what you eat

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