Sandwiches have received a bad rap in recent years, cast aside by the gluten-free and no-carb brigades in favour of trendy options like sushi.
However, home-made sarnies — filled with fibre, nutrients, protein and minerals —can be a potent part of your packed lunch, nutritionists say.
The sheer flexibility of this lunchtime favourite means you can cater your lunch not just to your personal taste, but to your personal needs, one expert claims.
Lacking calcium in your diet? Slap some
Slumped on the edge of her bed in the middle of the afternoon, wearing only her underwear, Elizabeth Taylor clutched a syringe of Demerol, a powerful opioid, in her right hand.
Christopher Wilding, her adult son by her second marriage (to the British actor Michael Wilding), was staying with his mother in the imposing mansion in Washington DC she shared with her sixth husband, John Warner, a senator from Virginia.
The house’s intercom had buzzed that day in the 1970s
Four years ago, when I was chair of the health treatment watchdog NICE, I developed cancer of the head and neck.
My career had taken me from the grassroots of the NHS — I spent 36 years as a rural GP — to the service’s commanding heights.
Cancer brought me right to the heart of the health service as an anxious patient. I found myself needing urgent and aggressive treatment.
This meant undergoing two operations, followed by 30 sessions of
If you want to understand why Democrats and their allies are so excited about the prescription drug reforms that President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday, it helps to think about how long they have been trying to put those reforms on the books.
The idea of giving the federal government leverage over pharmaceutical prices goes back decades, at least to the early 1990s when former President Bill Clinton was putting together his ill-fated plan for universal health care.
