http://site.openhandstore.org/blog Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:01:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fitness supplements are big business, billion-dollar big and it got that way by promising to make you bigger, stronger and faster but of course that begs the question, do they work? The answer is a a qualified, "maybe": Doctors and nutritionists say that people who eat a normal diet generally don’t ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2010/01/19/still-no-magic-bullets/ Green tea to be precise. Dr. Kaijun Niu, at Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering in Sendai, and colleagues found men and women aged 70 and older who drank four or more, versus one or fewer, cups of green tea daily were 44 percent less likely to have symptoms of ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/12/18/drink-tea-be-happy/ If you're a fan of professional sports, it can be easy to look at the athletes on the field and assume that it all comes too easily for them. Sure, all of the pros running around on our TV screens were born with physical gifts that distinguish them from the ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/10/27/no-such-thing-as-a-natural-athlete/ There certainly is a lot of hullabaloo about the upcoming year 2012. Movies, television documentaries, and the Internet seem to have a fascination with the year because that’s when the Mayan calendar ends…and so does civilization, as we know it! Earthquakes, meteors, giant murderous poodles—it’s all rather unclear exactly what ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/10/16/2012/ Back when I was a young man, my refrigerator was the nightmare of mothers and epidemiologists everywhere. I kept food until it turned moldy, smelled bad, or started to move. Now, I’m a lot better about tossing old fruit and vegetables.  I know carrots taste better when they’re fresh, oranges ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/10/12/is-the-milk-still-good/ Another in a our ongoing series of pieces that examine the seemingly innate human need to find that one thing, be it pill or seed or delectable piece of dark chocolate that will make us younger, thinner and possibly immortal. Today's installment focusses on "probiotics," those (possibly) beneficial bacterium that we ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/09/29/no-magic-bullets-part-iii/ If you are a fan of pro football, you know Tony Gonzales is arguably the best Tight End of all time but what you probably did not know is that he credits a plant-based diet for his continued success at an age when most pro athletes begin thinking of retirement. ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/08/27/the-all-pro-diet/ Well, it has been far too long since our last posting here but fittingly, we return with more pearls of wisdom from our favorite food writer, Michal Pollan. Pollan is back with another unique insight into America's peculiar food culture. Pivoting off the release of the new movie, "Julie & ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/08/07/back-in-the-saddle/ Wasted food is just about the saddest thing we come across in the food industry. At best, this waste finds its way to the compost bin, at worst, it goes out in the garbage. One restauranteur in Utah seems to have hit upon a better solution: Sean Wharton, owner of The ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/07/02/green-solutions-low-tech-edition/ Some of you may have heard the buzz that there was a Matt Cain sighting at Project Open Hand last week.  For those of you that are not sports fanatics, Matt is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants.   As the spokesperson for our upcoming Plate to Plate 5K ... http://site.openhandstore.org/blog/2009/06/30/giants-ace-matt-cain-visits-the-poh-kitchen/