June 14--A walk along the Cosumnes

[zyzyly]

I had an early morning phone conference with my doctoral advisor about my project proposal. I had a revision due yesterday, but kind of ran into a wall and decided that I needed to completely rewrite it rather than revise it. She agreed and gave me some direction.

Interestingly, in the midst of my failed revision, I found a newly published article that summarizes all the literature about diabetes in the Hmong population, and pretty much lays out what I am looking at. I found it very helpful, and sent an email to the author, who is a nursing professor at Chico State, about an hour north of here. I will talk to her later this week, and may gain some additional insight into this project.

After all this, I decided I needed to clear my head and drove out to the Cosumnes River Preserve to hike around.



One of my favorite spots. I have come hiking out here for close to 25 years. I have always found peace.



a green spider I saw along the way.

Comments

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

There was a television program a while back about the aboriginal population up north who returned to their native diet of salmon, and a bunch of other things. They all lost weight, and their diabetes dropped off dramatically. I gather their bodies just did so much better when they went back to their cultural diet. It was really an interesting program.

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

Funny how all these "modern" foods and conveniences are supposed to make life "better" but rarely seem to.

Spider picture is awesome. I am also hankering for the woods.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Yeah the Western diet is implicated in my study.

[thoughtsbykat.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've never seen a green spider before. Great capture1 now I will look it up to find out more.

I miss walking in the woods. I need to go up on the parkway.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize it was green until I looked at the picture and was able to focus in. The spider was pretty small.

[howeird]

Diabetes among the Hmong? Thais put sugar into almost all their food, I wonder if that's also a Hmong thing. In Chiang Rai, which is mostly where I saw them, they mostly looked under-weight, but that may be because it's a long walk into town from their hill villages. They probably don't walk that much here. When you're done & published, I'd like to read the dissertation.

As usual, stunning photos!

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

That's the thing--it was almost unknown among the Hmong in Southeast Asia, but has become a big problem here. They are not out farming all day, and eating a different diet.

[neptunia67.livejournal.com]

The spider is fabulous!

How do you pronounce "Cosumnes"?

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

It is like "Consume", but without the N, and add an "ess"