• The phrase “you are what you eat” is often used in various dietary articles. This phrase, coined from one in French translated as, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are,” first saw the light in a work by Frenchman Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1962. Research, however, strongly indicates that what you eat indeed plays a large role in your mental wellbeing, and food for mental health may be a prime example.