1. You Are What You Eat

There may still be some wisdom in the old adage, ‘you are what you eat.’ For Shannon Cooper of Brisbane, Australia, these are words to live by. She’s spent her entire career figuring out how different foods affect human physiology.

According to her, food can either be great fuel or toxic poison. And she practices exactly what she preaches. This led her to make the crazy decision to carefully dictate what her child eats, and some would find this decision to be outright appalling.