Fatty Blood

Hiya,
so I have been working some health fairs lately as a coach.  Looking at the results of people's blood work and telling them about the cholesterol HDL, LDL, Triglycerides, pressure and sugar levels.  What I find amazing is those that are not fasting.  We need to fast to by the most accurate.  But what happens when we do not fast is we see a response, mainly in the Tri's (fats) and the sugar from what we ingested recently. 
So when I see someones test who has a high sugar, I ask 'What did you have for Breakfast', (most of the testing is early a.m.)  Nine times outta Ten, they will say, cereal.  I have been telling people for years of the high and rapid transition of these processed dump truck boxes of food we are marketed as breakfast called cereal and here is my proof.  If you want a big sugar rush and big crash, eat a bowl of cereal....mmm, good.  Now I wont lie, every once in a while, I will chow on some Muesilix, or some 'healthy' granola, but I know I am lying to myself about it being healthy and still going to get the sugar roller coaster.  Every once in a while, like once or twice a week, ok, but how many of us grab that cardboard box of cereal, (which oddly is shaped like a tomb stone) and munch away every day.  Read the box.  If something say 'fortified' it means added to, usually because there was no nutritional value before it became injected with these 'nutrients'.  Come on, boil up some steel cut oats, throw in some nuts and Cinnamon, top with some coconut milk, side it with two low fat oil cooked eggs, and your much better off: tops 10 mins.  I make a big batch of oats and eat them during the week. 
The other thing I am seeing is the high fats.  Blood is water, fat is oil, you know the rule.  Don't mix right.  They don't mix in a dish, they don't mix in your blood.  Do this: get a clear glass bowl, add water, drop in some olive oil.  Viola!  Your blood after a steak, or after a burger, or any high fat content dish.  So those peeps with the high Tri's, I ask them too, 'Whatcha eat last night?'.  9/10 it's a steak, a burger, Chinese take out (whoa- read a sesame oil bottle), or an omelet with ham and charisso (blech).  I promise, you do the bowl thing above and you will think about your little thin blood vessels every time you look at that piece of lard (steak) looking back at you from the table.  However, same rule as the cereal, we are not here to deprive ourselves and live in a cave, once a week, once a month, then instead of a life threat, it becomes a treat.  Treat time!
Take care of  yourself, stay healthy, keep moving and for crying out loud, eat with your brain, not your stomach.
TrainerTroy.

*I am not a Dr. and this is for your entertainment only.  Do your own research.