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You Are Not What You Eat.
Byline: Photographed by Horacio Salinas
Does eating make you fat? Or is it all in your genes? Jeffrey Steingarten faces his dieting demons.
And all this time, you've been walking around thinking, I totally am what I eat. It's why I look the way I do, whether I feel healthy or weak, how well I sleep, whether I'll get a cold or a stroke, how long I'll live, and how I'll die. And most important of all, how I look in a bathing suit.
Every one of these thoughts is more or less wrong. Because we are not what we eat.
Of all the warnings and urgings you've heard about food, very few of them are justified. No, eating sugar doesn't make children ...
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