post-prandial

• “The technical term is post-prandial slump but most people recognize it as an irresistible urge to put their heads on their desks and snooze Delgado-Lista, J, Lopez-Miranda, P et al Am J Clin Nutr 87: 317-322, 2008.”

  The Huffington Post: Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: Will Feeding Your Employees Make Them More Productive?

• “Into his post-prandial idyll stalks Steve Coogan; taller, sharper, slightly harried, he sits down heavily and scowls.”

  The Guardian: Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are'

• “Include post-prandial checks two hours after you begin a meal.”

  The Huffington Post: Riva Greenberg: 17 Tips From a Diabetes Patient-Expert

• “What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.”

  Greenpeace, the criminal conspiracy. | RedState

• “Initially seen in a post-prandial pose in a Swedish cabin on a wintry lake with a naked woman, it ends with Clooney having killed three people.”

  The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The American

• “The post-prandial reward is a cup of coffee with fresh cream.”

  The Huffington Post: April Streeter: Necessity is the Mother of...Weird Meals

• “Later you could tell that he was not an Oxford man: he pronounced ‘Cherwell’, in his amusing and rather post-prandial speech, as ‘Churwell’.”

  The man who saved Oxford University

• “My favorite post-prandial pastime was to wander from room to room, imagining her home filled with family and friends in years past, its silent pantry still housing the china and stemware flanked by Paul's wine chart -- Champagnes and Rhones, Bordeaux and Burgundies -- all meticulously chronicled in pencil on graph paper and dating back to a vintage 1952 Bonnes Mares de Vogues.”

  Nancy Howard Cobb: My Julia Child

• “As fate would have it, when I came back an hour later with a camera loaded with newly purchased film, I was distraught to see the carcass of my wreath blowing in the breeze, picked clean by the birds who lay on their sides in the bushes in a post-prandial stupor, laughing at me and the look of horror on my face.”

  One For The Table: A Homemade Christmas? I'd Think Twice About That

• “A second half during which the air is filled with the sound of gentle post-prandial snoring and the fetid aroma of champagne halitosis and poached salmon burps.”

  Post-interval burps

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