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