You Are What You Eat?
It is often said that you are what you eat? Do you agree? What does it really mean and how did it get started? The notion went that basically to stay healthy you have to eat good food. Brillat-Savarin and Ludwig Andreas Feuebach wrote that "tell me what you eat and I tell you what you are" and "man is what he eats" respectively. The food that one eats has a bearing on your health and state of mind. Some quarters believed that as much as 90% of diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. So we have to look at what we eat more carefully. Never get cheap crabs but by itself crabs can kill you if taken in extreme due to cholesterol. Perhaps more expensive prawns are better and still cheaper than the cheapest crabs? I believe abalones were once cheap but the Chinese ate them till the price shot up and never came back. Expensive does not really mean more nutrition always. Anyway, most of the time we are over eating. You can w...