Liquid Cheese Drizzled Over Corn Chips!

I’m not here to food-shame anyone. I have crushed this chemical concoction on multiple occasions in my Little League days. But I would note that was because my parents simply did not know better. I am beginning to think the majority still are flying blind—completely unaware that what they are consuming has zero upside, and with each crunch they are stripping vigor and vitality.

Winter season means a lot of basketball tournaments with my girls. With that I see front and center the cuisine of Americas youth: Red Bulls, Gatorade, corn chips, Sour Patch Kids, and hot dogs.

Real Food

What gets me is parents are spending so much time and money to give their child an advantage on the court, and yet the resource (aka food) their body subsists on and continually regenerates itself from is not given a second thought. WILD!!!

What’s the cheapest garbage you have? Send it my kids way. No really. I will see it all day tomorrow. No preparation. No second thought. McDonald’s between games.

We wonder why kids have a flat affect, can’t figure out their emotions, get injured on the regular, and have minimal muscle tone.

Like my girls often ask me, how can they play so good when they eat like that? Modern-day miracle. The body is fearfully and wonderfully made.

Myself, I used to eat deep dish pizzas, corn dogs, Mountain Dew, and Cocoa Pebbles.

By the grace of God I read a book that showed me the real food route to get me out of my stomach aches and chronic colds, while also shifting my stamina massively.

This is why I write, post, and make videos beyond seeing my patients in office. Maybe a parent, coach, or kid will come across the content and realize there is another way.

If it wasn’t survival mode because of food torture on a rainy basketball weekend, their performance could rise exponentially by choosing differently and preparing food in advance.

Back to the liquid cheese over corn chips dish.

You’re getting oxidized fats that trigger an inflammatory cascade—stealing performance energy while sending your blood sugar to the moon, followed by the crash. If you wanted a recipe for foggy thinking and tendon rupture, eat corn chips regularly.

And that nacho cheese? That’s not cheese. It’s a science experiment—rancid oils, modified starches, emulsifiers, artificial color, fake flavor agents. It’s designed to light up your brains reward center and then slap you in the face 30 minutes later.

Liquid Orange bodily distress.

Your mitochondria—the actual power plants inside your cells—have to deal with this mess. Instead of efficiently making energy, they are stuck processing damaged fats and managing oxidative stress. It would be like showing up to practice and, instead of working on skills and getting in basketball shape, you have to spend half of practice cleaning the floors and picking up the gym.

Your mitochondria want to make you fly, but instead are stuck with janitorial duties.

They are running damage control when they should be producing ATP. The chips and cheese are actively stealing resources. Motivation, mood, mental clarity—not today, Matt. Those emulsifiers that make the texture just right are actively liquidating the flora responsible for serotonin and dopamine balance.

For athletes, this is catastrophic when repeated over and over. Endurance, power, recovery, and reflex response are down-regulated.

This is the information I wish my parents and I were privy to when I was 10–16 years old, living in ultra-processed food heaven.

I’m not letting my daughter get in the car with a random guy; likewise, I’m not buying her poison posing as food from a concession stand.