Cyrus answered Saturday April 3 2004, 4:49 pm: They are trying to make you the tool of the right. If the masses believe "you are what you eat" than everybody will try to eat the fanciest food. However, only the rich will be able to afford it. It is just another way of making the people feel inferior to the rich capitolist pigs...
Lizzy answered Thursday April 1 2004, 6:53 pm: They are saying that if you eat a lot of fattening foods, you will be fat. If you eat healthy foods, you will be skinny. It is a very basic sort of metaphor.
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MFS answered Wednesday March 31 2004, 11:58 pm: it might stem from the fact that when you eat stuff, you digest it, and what you digest is used by your body for nutrients and nourishment... that silly "metabolism" thing... and that whole metabolic process includes such silly things as growth and cell repair and replacement... which means your body breaks down food and that food is used to make new cells... new you.
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