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Student Spotlight: Lan Truong Studies Vietnam’s Traditional, Plant-Based Approach to Treating Diabetes
Lan Truong
By Lida Tunesi
Diabetes, a global epidemic, is especially prevalent in Vietnam. In 2016, the World Health Organization estimated that one out of every 20 Vietnamese adults had the disease. Ph.D. student
(Biology)
is looking at how traditional, plant-based medicine is being used to treat diabetes in South Vietnam and the implications for the rest of the world.
She recently received a Dissertation Year Fellowship from The Graduate Center, which provides a $25,000 grant in addition to tuition coverage, to pursue her research. Impressively, she also won a 2020 Fulbright fellowship that allowed her to conduct field research in Vietnam.
How to carefully, safely and legally use cannabis in drinks M. Carrie Allan Lan Truong for The Washington Post In early 2018, on a trip to Los Angeles, I popped in to Gracias Madre in West Hollywood. I was excited for its plant-based Mexican food, but also wanted to try the Stoney Negroni, which I’d heard about while working on a story about dangerous drinks. California had (sort of) legalized marijuana in 2016, and chef Jason Eisner had generated some headlines by adding cannabidiol to some of the restaurant’s cocktails. Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a chemical compound in marijuana that purportedly relaxes you physically but doesn’t get you high (distinct from tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, which does), so the drink name was a bit of a fake-out. Still, when I’d talked to him, he’d joked how, when he described his plan for the drinks, he could hear their lawyer sweating. If it’s legal where you live, the ultimate homemade pot brownie is all about the can