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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:15:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Nutritional advise for non Jewish Restaurant eating

Just wanted to complement all the excellent postings about advice to
businessmen who eat in non kosher restaurants.(Zvi Weiss (v29n8)
summarized several postings in v28n101 thru v29n8 by quoting a discussion
at a convention that is permissable).

I just wanted to add some advice about what to eat. Obviously if you
are consumating a business deal you want to feel fresh and alert. There
have been many studies on what is optimal to eat (Eg'The Breakfast Meal
in Relation to What we eat'(Orent-Keiles and Hallman) US Department of
Agriculture #827, 1949--many other studies have been conducted since then
and there is even a Gmarrah in Baba Kamah echoing this theme).

The bottom line of all these studies is that if you ONLY have carbohydrates
then your body digests them quickly, pulls all the sugar out of your system
and you are left with a "hungry feeling". However if you combine protein
with the carbohydrates the body digests them slowly and releases the sugar
into your system at a gradual pace making you feel good.

Based on the above, when I eat in non-kosher restaurants I always try
and have some protein as well as sugar: I usually have a glass of milk
with orange juice (or as other posters suggested, yogurt or fruit or
salad and dressings if the containers are available and are Kosher).
Another good source of protein are packaged (Kosher) peanuts (you
can even purchase small packages and bring them along with you to
the restaurant).

Russell Jay Hendel; Phd ASA
rjhendel@juno.com
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