Arvindus

• Title: Aphorisms, You Are What You Eat.
• Author: Arvindus.
• Publisher: Arvindus.
• Copyright: Arvindus, 2020, all rights reserved.
• Index: 202003262.
• Edition: html, first edition.
• Original: Aforismen, Je bent wat je eet, Index: 202003261.

Content

• You Are What You Eat
• Notes
• Bibliography

You are what you eat, and you eat what you are

The saying 'you are what you eat' is much used and indicates that the substances of the physical body will come to consist of the used food substances.¹ The added saying 'you eat what you are' indicates however that the qualities of the chosen food substances are similar to those of the eater. Those with a dark nature shall tend to eat dark food, those with a lustful nature lust evoking food, and those with a sound nature shall tend to eat sound food.²

Notes

1. Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Anne Drayton (translator), Penguin Books, London / New York / et alibi, 1970, p. 13. "Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are."
2. Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Swami Swarupananda (translator / commentor), Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata, 2007, Ch. XVII, Śl. 8-10. "8. The foods which augment vitality, energy, strength, health, cheerfulness, and appetite, which are savoury and oleaginous, substantial and agreeable, are liked by the Sāttvika. [...]
   9. The foods that are bitter, sour, saline, excessively hot, pungent, dry, and burning, are liked by the Rājasika, and are productive of pain, grief, and disease. [...]
   10. That which is stale, tasteless, stinking, cooked overnight, refuse, and impure, is the food liked by the Tāmasika."

Bibliography

• Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Anne Drayton (translator), Penguin Books, London / New York / et alibi, 1970.
• Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Swami Swarupananda (translator / commentor), Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata, 2007.