The belief that “you are what you eat” originated in the 1800s with epicurean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. They maintained that food affects one’s health and state of mind.
Then American weight loss pioneer Victor Lindlahr declared in 1940 that food actually “controls health.” He wrote that
“Ninety percent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat.”
Today, nutrigenomics....