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Japanese Guts Are Made for Sushi - ScienceNOW
news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/japanese-guts-are-made-for-sushi.html, posted 2010 by peter in food health japan msm science toread
Americans don't have the guts for sushi. At least that's the implication of a new study, which finds that Japanese people harbor enzymes in their intestinal bacteria that help them digest seaweed--enzymes that North Americans lack. What's more, Japanese may have first acquired these enzymes by eating bacteria that thrive on seaweed in the open ocean.