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Quick: What did you have for lunch today? How about breakfast? (Wait ... did you even have breakfast?) You probably don’t remember — or care. But why not?
When it comes to nurturing your career, you worry about how you look, how you perform, and how your clients and boss perceive you. Yet you spend hours each day dining, snacking, gorging, and guzzling without noticing how much it affects your mood, mental ability, and professional image.
We are a nation full of big eaters who pay no attention to eating. In 2005, we each consumed 17 percent more food than our parents did in 1970, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And we take in 523 more calories each day. That’s a lot of food to ignore — and yet we do. If you want to perform at the top of your game at work, however, you need to start paying attention to the kinds of fuel you put in your body and how it gets there.
