The phrase "you are what you eat" isn't meant to be taken literally.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes but scientifically this post is true. You grow and become "more massive" if you will by consuming food. So just about all of your body now was at one point food that you ate.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No. If you want to put it that way, we are the nutrients and vitamens our body absorbs when we digest food. And we grow because of hormones, not food.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But what I am saying is that those vitamins and nutrients were at one point not part of our bodies. we were not born with the cells and molecules and atoms were currently are made out of. They entered our bodies through our mouths. In the form of food. Hormones are what cause us to grow, but they are not what is added to our bodies to make us grow. That is food. So, technically, at one point, you ate every part of your body. Your body then converted the fat, proteins, vitamins, minerals, into tissues and cells and hair and skin and everything else. Get it?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've never eaten my dad's sperm nor my mother's eggs.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

A new born infant obviously has not eaten anything in its life. What you are made up of as an infant, and as an embryo, is no longer what you are made up of now. That tissue has been used up and left your body as waste. you have the same cells, but the contents of those cells have changed. Your body grows and repairs itself continuously. Since being born, all this new matter entered your body as food. I'm sorry that I missed this point before. Is it clear now?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You make it sound like humans don't shit or piss. Previously you basically said that we are made of food, and food makes us grow. But now you just said our body grows and repairs itself continuously. Contradicting yourself?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't see the contradiction. I mentioned that waste leaves our body in my last response. And by continuously I meant throughout our life, not necessarily at EVERY instance in time which we are alive.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Check out: http://blog.foodessentials.com/...eat-literally/ It pretty much agrees with everything I said, and explains it better. And I think it is weird. That's all I'm saying. One error I made: I said we still have all the cells we were born with. That isn't true, according to this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Basically the article is just telling me im made up of the nutrients and vitamens of what i eat. isnt that what i first said?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I dont even know why im arguing with you. I just said that the phrase "you are what you eat" isnt meant to be taken literally. its not like have ketchup flowing through my veins and arteries right this very second.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The article better articulated what I meant in the OP. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. And it is kinda like you have ketchup in you veins, because your blood was once food.... I think we agree with the idea but disagree in the little details or something, maybe because my wording of the post was bad. What I mean was in the article.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not when you're a newborn.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It was something your mom ate then

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I know but the post says "it was in your throat before it was a part of you" so being a newborn is an exception.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was assuming no newborns were reading my post.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Never underestimate the intelligence of newborns.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Okay, any newborns here?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes I'm here teehee

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm really stupid right now, can someone explain this?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Basically every part of you, whether it's muscle or fat or hair or blood was some type of food that you ate. So technically you're made of the food you've eaten.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Huh. I guess you //are// what you eat.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I feel like this isn't really accurate, but I'd need B10ckH34d or Scientist to explain to me why.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The only reason I could think of it not being 100% true is that you get Vitamin D from sunlight, which is part of you, I suppose.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Very true. And it's not really the food that's a part of you, it's the nutrients you absorb from the food that make your cells multiple and all that jazz.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Definitely. But I'd still consider the nutrients in the food the food you ate. They're a part of the food.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Very true. I just think this is too over simplified.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I definitely agree with you, just not enough to disagree with the post.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well, your body also breathes in oxygen. I wouldn't say that that is food.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh very true. However, the oxygen is, correct me if I'm wrong, simply carried to throughout your body to allow it to function. It's not so much 'part of your body.'

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I loved because you said you'd need scientist or blockhead to explain it. Looks like blockhead finally got his wish

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Brb gonna go post on his wall.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Okay... Not sure where exactly to start. Most of our biomass was absorbed from the digestive system, and the elements in vitamin D came form there too. Sunlight is just the energy source to arrange them into vit D, kinda like what happens in photosynthesis to make glucose. Oxygen is sort of like a hybrid between fuel and a garbage truck. It goes into the blood from the lungs and then goes into the cells to allow life processes. In the overall reaction, oxygen goes into a cell, then comes out carrying a carbon atom (waste/garbage) as carbon dioxide. And technically, the oxygen in your blood is part of your body, but it's temporary. It also did pass through your throat, but branched off toward the lungs instead of continuing to the stomach. So yeah, aside from unnatural intake through other orifices (like flooding the rectum with alcohol to get drunk faster) or any little material absorbed through breaks in the skin, all your body mass was either taken in through your or your mom's throat. This is excluding people who feed through a tube straight to the stomach, but the crux of the post is eating, not just the natural way of eating.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Your food doesn't become part of you. The nutrients do. Everything else goes out the butt.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

when you're a fetus in your mother's womb you are getting food/nutrients through the embylicol cord..which went through what is now your belly button. So no it would not have gone down your throat

by Anonymous 11 years ago