“Food is life” expresses the point of view that food is necessary to maintain our bodies in good working order. We cannot live very long without food, so it is life-giving. Taken to the extreme, this attitude is displayed as an indifference to food except to keep the body functioning. Flavor, texture, aroma, temperature, or appearance are immaterial to the person with this extreme mindset. Time spent in preparing or eating food is viewed as a wasteful interruption of whatever is more important to that individual.
“Life is food” suggests that the most important thing in someone’s life is the process of procuring, preparing, and eating food. Everything else, whether work or relationships or learning, serves to advance the acquisition and enjoyment of food. One could say that a person with this focus either fetishizes, or is addicted to, food.
Most people are somewhere between the two extremes described above. And that is a very good thing because either extreme is unhealthy.
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