You are what you eat
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You are what you eat (1825) is a dictum first recorded by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin .
It means that if you eat well, you will be well; but if you eat badly you will feel bad.
It upholds the notion that to be fit and healthy you need to eat good food.
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Origin
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote in Physiologie du goût, 1825:
- "Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are].
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote in "Die Naturwißensschaft und die Revolution" [Natural science and the revolution] (1850), repeated in "Das Geheimnis des Opfers, ober der Mensch ist was er ißt" [The Mystery of Sacrifice, or Man is What He Eats] (1862):
- "Der Mensch ist, was er ißt." [man is what he eats].
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