Questions Regarding Nutrition in the Light of Spiritual Science

When outsiders sometimes hear this or that more or less superficially about anthroposophy or Spiritual Science, they believe that its followers are far too concerned with food and nutrition. An outsider cannot understand why anthroposophists attach so much importance to whether someone eats this or that. It cannot be denied that in some anthroposophical circles, among those who want to delve deeply into spiritual life in an easy way, there is a great deal of confusion. Some believe that they should only avoid this or that, should not eat or drink certain things, in order to attain certain higher levels of knowledge! This is just as much a mistake as the view of Feuerbach's statement, “Man is what he eats,” which has just been characterized. At the very least, it is a one-sided view.