A voice from India about using "uncultivated" foods
It is always better to get the message directly from the one who is actually involved in the action. I have for years reflected that as many as 90% of the world's population gets part or all of their...
View ArticleWhere to Start in Developing Foraging Skills
Sam Thayer is a highly knowledgeable and accomplished forager and is very comfortable living on the provisions nature provides. His book Forager's Harvest was a classic as soon as it was published. But...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Lifetime a Continuous Vacation
Our career–our life’s work– should be something that we thoroughly enjoy, not just something we do to pay the bills and put food on the table. And that is what this story is about--how one man went...
View ArticleRaising children Amish-Style
On our Forage Ahead listserv this past week, we have had a number of people question the advisability of exposing children under the age of 18 in foraging for wild plants. Typical of these is the one...
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I just noticed that I have been away for over a year. Not good. I'll try to do better.However, I just finished reading Michael J. Fox's book "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future" , in which...
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12 hours of health and taxes
Those bracing for this year's tax season, which features new complexities because of the Affordable Care Act, can get free help at all H&R Block outlets from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.To state...
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Who's taking biggest hit on workplace coverage?
I'm hearing a growing sense of frustration from people who pay a lot for workplace health insurance, and a new study from The Commonwealth Fund confirms there's good reason.The state-by-state analysis...
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Moral Movement targets Medicaid expansion
The Rev. William Barber, president of North Carolina's NAACP branch, is turning to the Bible in his call for state lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage to impoverished adults."Gov. Pat McCrory and...
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Blue Cross clarifies NC cost tool
When Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina unveiled a new online cost tool last week, the immediate concern raised by national experts and Charlotte health executives was that it wasn't clear...
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Real changes in Obamacare coming, analyst says
Last year's GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act were mostly political theater, but expect to see this year's Republican-dominated Congress make significant changes, College of Charleston...
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Coverage push tailored to LGBT community
A national coalition working to get lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people health coverage under the Affordable Care Act has been working with North Carolina advocates to spread the...
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Healthy, wealthy and worried
Even people with health insurance who call themselves financially secure worry that they can't cover their out-of-pocket costs if a medical emergency strikes, a new survey from eHealth shows.Two-thirds...
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Cool or creepy, iPhone tracks my every step
I was psyched to see that my new iPhone 6 came with the Health app. But I was shocked when I opened it and saw that it was already tracking my steps, my daily walking distance and the flights of...
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Author: GOP needs strategy beyond anti-Obamacare
I know a lot of Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but I've had a hard time figuring out what, if anything, they want to take its place. That's unfortunate, given the power they...
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My surgeon made how much?
If you look up arthroscopic knee surgery on the new Blue Cross cost estimator, you'll see that several Charlotte surgeons were reimbursed about $4,000 for doing the procedure at Charlotte Surgery...
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Can GOP reform Obamacare?
As the Republican-led Congress begins its 2015 "repeal the Affordable Care Act" season, this seems like a good time to loop back to Philip Klein's examination of GOP alternatives for health...
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Separated, uninsured and out of luck?
A reader who's in the process of divorce emailed to ask whether there's any way he can get help paying for health insurance this year.He works part time and says he'd spend half his take-home pay...
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NC Medicaid battle: Hard numbers and human stories
The groups fighting for North Carolina to expand Medicaid this year are taking a two-pronged approach.In news conferences in Charlotte and Raleigh this week, the N.C. Medicaid Expansion Coalition...
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Single white Southerners: ACA benefits may await
People who are eligible for aid paying out-of-pocket medical costs are most likely to be white, single and living in the South, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and...
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Burr leads push to repeal and replace Obamacare
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is taking a lead role in the latest push to replace the Affordable Care Act with a more market-driven approach to health reform. The North Carolina Republican joined two other...
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