What the hell does "you are what you eat" mean? Seriously?

Question

And what would you most likely be?

I eat like a fatass, but I am most definitley not one.

Answer 1

I have NO freakin' idea.....but I'd probably be a donut.....or a bacon cheeseburger.....or.....well yeah, I like food :)

Answer 2

You are what you eat is the notion that to be fit and healthy you need to eat good food.

The actual phrase didn't emerge in English until the 1920s and 30s. The nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, who was a strong believer in the idea that food controls health, developed the Catabolic Diet.
An ad for beef in a 1923 edition of the Bridgeport Telegraph said:

"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat."

In 1942 he published 'You Are What You Eat: how to win and keep health with diet'. That seems to be the vehicle that took the phrase into the public consciousness. Lindlahr is likely to have also used the term in his radio talks in the late 1930s (now lost unfortunately), which would also have reached a large audience.

The phrase got a new lease of life in the 1960s hippy era. The food of choice was macrobiotic wholefood and the phrase was adopted by them as a slogan for healthy eating.

Answer 3

The phrase, "You are what you eat" should be taken quite literally. It basically means that if you eat a bunch of junk you will be overweight and unhealthy. Your lifestyle will probably lead to cancer, heart disease or some other horrible way to die. On the other hand, if you eat good, nutritious food you should be a healthy weight and live a long life virtually free of disease. Exercise, although it has nothing to do with this phrase, also plays a big factor. I would be a cornucopia of fresh fruits vegetables and grains. Yummm...

Answer 4

I would suppose it means that if you eat healthy foods then you are a healthy person but if you eat fatty foods then you are indeed a fatty.
I would probably be a snickers bar. I love em too much. Oh and I am a fatty. So I guess I am what I do eat right

Answer 5

it means if you eat bacon you will grow an extra set of legs and a snout and start groveling in the mud....if you eat carrots you will lose your legs and sprout green hair...you might like to eat lollypops...you could be sucked on all day, lmao

Answer 6

You are what you eat is very literal. The chemical make up of what you eat becomes a part of your body.

Answer 7

That if you eat healthily your body will be a temple.If you eat unhealthily you will be obese and on a one way ticket to a heart attack.

Answer 8

Its just a slang term that people use to describe eating habits.

Answer 9

You know these guys that eat a lot of hotdogs? Need I say more?

Answer 10

It means that what you eat gets converted into fat for your body, and therefor you are what you eat.

I would probobly be french fries.