You Are What You Eat

This paraphrase first came into my awareness in the late 1960's as I drifted out of the 'real' world and into the counterculture -- the hippies. Along with this awareness comes health food, herbalism, alternative medicine, etc, etc, etc.

The second awareness came from "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" the Chinese medical encyclopedia written 2936 BC. The second paragraph states: ".. the people should be content with whatever delicious foods as available to them..." (Henry Lu's translation). I think this means within 50 miles of where you live.

Then, there appeared in the Hare Krishna Cookbook (a monumental culinary masterpiece) at the heading of one of the chapters a quotation from Pythagoras the mathematician/herbalist "You are what you eat". Same phrase.

Then there was my stepfather who told me "The farmer always eats first." I don't know just how it fits in here, but today it tells me that I had better grow my own food if I want to be healthy.

What do you eat? Who are you? To find out, take a can off something out of your cupboard or off a grocery store shelf and read the list of ingredients from the BOTTOM UP not he top down. The first time you find something you cannot pronounce, it is not food: food words are simple words. It is a poison to preserve freshness, a preservative poison. If you eat it you have poisoned yourself, you are toxic.

Being poisoned is what the cancer epidemic is all about.

The short essays in this website are discussions of what you can do to change who you are by eating differently.

"Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some few are to be chewed and digested..." (Francis Bacon, circa 1600 AD)

Thank you for nibbling here.