Watch What You Eat

You Are What You Eat

Entertainer, Bill Cosby, once wrote, “I am what I ate, and I am frightened!” He should have used horrified instead.

What you mindlessly eat directly affects your mental state, which in turn, affects your job-hunting performance. Job hunting and effectively interviewing is challenging, even for experienced job hunters. Eating the wrong things complicates your task.

Throughout most of my postings, an effort is made to remain politically neutral. Should the following contain a political overtone, it was not intended. The focus of this is to provide usable information in a straightforward manner.

Providing unvarnished reality necessitates treading on sensitive issues. The food one stuffs in one’s mouth is one of them. At this juncture, you may be asking yourself, how can the food one eats be a significant job- interviewing issue?

Next to oil and gas, the agro-chemical industry maintains an aggressive and powerful lobby inside the DC beltway. There is a wealth of information available on the hidden dangers surrounding the dismal state of our nation’s food supply. That information, however, rarely seems to reach the humble masses.

One of the realities regarding food—particularly mindlessly eaten food, is that most of it is not real, but rather food-like. Food-like products are often confused with real food. Real food, however, spoils quickly, and does not contain additives, chemicals and preservatives to keep it edible. Those added ingredients can slow you down mentally and physically, as well as present a gradual life-threatening hazard.

How and why did this happen?

A quick history lesson: Back when Fidel Castro came to power, Cuba was our main supplier of cheap cane sugar. We declared him an enemy, and our supply of cheap sugar abruptly dried up. Corporate America decided we needed a cheap replacement, and invented sugar substitutes like Aspartame and Saccharin. In less than 10 years, the FDA realized these substitute chemical sweeteners caused cancer.

The agro-chemical industry went back to their research labs. They discovered that corn was in abundant supply. The problem with real corn, however, is that it cannot withstand harsh chemical pesticides. The decision was made to see if corn and soybeans could be genetically modified to withstand such chemicals. These modify foods are better known as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

Once genetically modified, the corn is processed into high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)—concentrated sugar! The nation’s sugar problem was solved—sort of. The agro-chemical companies promote this as: Hey folks, it’s only sugar.

What they conveniently fail to inform you is that once HFCS chemically combines with saturated fat, it transforms itself into a mentally addictive substance that rivals heroine. It also contains ever-so-slight amounts of the deadly pesticides Roundup.

The good news is that GMO corn can withstand Roundup. The not so good news is that Roundup, while it is genetically engineered not to kill GMO corn, it will kill everything else. Corn is a food with many crevasses. Roundup cannot be easily rinsed away. Ever-so-slight amounts of dangerous pesticide residue get left behind. When it is consumed, it does not automatically pass through your system.

Minuscule traces of Roundup in your diet will not kill you immediately. Your demise will come gradually in the form of liver cancer, fatty liver disease, liver failure, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity or Metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar. 


It literally boils down to picking your HFCS poison. Best advice from knowledgeable doctors is to avoid all high concentrated sugar products entirely.

FDA officials know this. They also know that if they sound the alarm whistle too loudly, their career days are over. The agro-chemical industry will bankroll whatever it takes to separate whistleblowers from their employment.

Within nine months of switching to real food, which means avoiding high fructose corn syrup products, my weight dropped 30 pounds, triglycerides plummeted to an insignificant level, blood pressure dropped to 117/80, the bad cholesterol dropped, my BMI fell to 22.5, and arthritis disappeared. The only things that skyrocketed were my mental energy and good cholesterol levels.

Best advice: Be very mindful of what you eat. You may have only a few shots for the positions you desire. If you experience an inability to remain lazar focused—especially during a job interview, look to the foods you are consuming.