you are what you eat

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. If you eat well, you will be well; however, if you eat badly, you will feel bad.

Translations

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: du är vad du äter