Professional tag-team wrestling can hardly be confused with the eating of food. For starters, the pain and injuries that can occur from the latter are for real.

But if an analogy is to be made between the two, you serve as both partners in the second endeavor, and the one named Brains doubles as your manager. He’s decided you’ll perform in the ring as Good Guys, chooses your opponents, and how often you’ll do battle.

When he schedules matches against Bad Guys, however, Brains quickly tags out. From the safety of the other side of the ropes, though, he will offer up his two cents incessantly as his buddy named Body gets knocked about.

Yet his two cents rarely help.

Now the reason to start with such a seemingly negligible and unconventional comparison is because too often the final outcome of what’s considered the conventional way of eating today reads just like the scripted bout when tag-team wrestling Good-Guys go against Bad Guys. For the first time.

Invariably in the first encounter, one of the villains lifts Body above his head and slams him to the ground. He climbs to the top rope, does what looks like a cannonball from a diving board, drops atop Body’s chest, and drives an elbow into his throat.

He then punches him in the solar plexus, grabs his hair, and slams his head against the mat until the referee stops the bout.

Entertainment value aside (and I do use that term loosely), you as a real-life viewer are supposed to feel outrage watching this and thirst for revenge, and enough of both that you’ll pay to see or tune into the rematch. And such intense feelings will indeed occur if you get lost in the moment and forget that what you’re witnessing is not legitimate wrestling but scripted writing.

Scripted writing, my friend, can be a powerful tool. When it comes to purchasing and consuming food, who’s the wordsmith of the one you follow?

Is it the food companies specializing in stuff loaded with added sugars and fats in order to corrupt and control your taste buds?

While those questions need answers sooner than later, a related one is just as pressing. Do you suffer from Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome?

If you have absolutely no clue because you’ve never heard about it before, that’s okay.

Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic syndrome, you see, is a term first coined by the American Heart Association no more than a year ago. The AHA did so “due to connections” among heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and obesity that engender “poor health outcomes.”

Which, unlike your unawareness of the term, aren’t okay.

Especially when a recent study published in JAMA determined there’s a 90-percent chance you have CKM.

Feeling a bit body slammed by that? Or like you just got punched in the solar plexus?

While either feeling is one you’d rather not experience for sure, if it results from stage one of the syndrome, it’s not all that bad. In fact, Ashish Verma, MD, assistant professor of nephrology at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, would tell you to regard it as an “opportunity.”

Because, as she told Kristen Fischer in an article about CKM for Health, you do not yet have a really serious health problem. You do have, however, at least one of the precursors that lead to one, like too high a BMI, too big a belly, or prediabetes.

Do nothing about this and there’s a really good chance stage one moves to stage two, which is the current case, the JAMA study estimates, for nearly half of the nearly 90 percent of adult Americans who have CKM. Stage two manifests itself through either one or a number of these: kidney disease, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

When the aforementioned heart troubles escalate, you’ve reached stage three. By stage four, your heart troubles have become heart disease.

But stage three is by no means a good place to be.

Dying from the sort of heart disease found in stage four has declined from 2000 until now. Yet dying from “heart failure” - which simply means in a medical sense your heart’s not working as well as it should - has increased 3 percent in the same time.

While I’d rather not learn about an increase like that, I feel the same way about the medical world creating another term that’s just as likely to confuse as clarify.

But this one’s absolutely necessary because I believe what Laura Manaker, MS, RDN, LD -who’s also an award-winning registered dietitian, book author, speaker, and entrepreneur - writes in an article explaining CKM syndrome for Verywell Health.

That the new term “underscores the interconnectedness of cardiovascular diseases, kidney dysfunction, and metabolic disorders such as diabetes and obesity.” That recognizing this interconnectedness is essential since these maladies often “coexist” and “exacerbate each other.”