Word: prandial
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...value with low calories. The healthy foods are exactly the ones you would expect, all that stuff your mom (and your doctor) told you to eat: lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, lean proteins like fish and legumes, and high-fiber whole grains. All of them blunt the post-prandial spike. "To some degree it kind of highlights why some dietary components are healthy for you," says O'Keefe...
...food into a stream of nutrients, including glucose (sugar), lipids (fats), and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). If your meal happens to be junk food - say, a processed bun with a cheap beef patty, French fries and a Coke - the rush of sugar causes something called "post-prandial hyperglycemia": a big spike in blood-sugar levels. Poor diet in the long-term leads to hypertension and buildup of gunk in blood vessels that increases heart-attack risk. But there are short-term effects too. "People don't understand this, even most physicians," says O'Keefe. Tissue becomes inflamed...
...There's no shortage of post-prandial entertainment. It's just five months old, but with its period furnishings the TUTTO cocktail bar, tel: (41-43) 818 2391, is as good a simulacrum of the 1960s as you'll find. The chandeliers and red velvet at BASILICA, tel: (41-43) 366 9383, take revelers back to an even older era. More contemporary interiors are found at the LABOR BAR, tel: (41-44) 272 4402, backdrop to local TV celebrity Kurt Aeschbacher's chat show, or at HARD ONE, tel: (41-44) 444 1000, a slick rooftop lounge. Among the area...
...with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder head to the Zuppamundial restaurant, tel: (41-43) 818 2391 - designer soups are the specialty and the wine list is one of the city's best. There's no shortage of post-prandial entertainment. It's just five months old, but with its period furnishings the Tutto cocktail bar, tel: (41-43) 818 2391, is as good a simulacrum of the 1960s as you'll find. The chandeliers and red velvet at BASILICA, tel: (41-43) 366 9383, take revelers back...