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Thu Nov 1

Immigration to US Westernizes Asian guts

Written by Pajau Vangay, Research Specialist in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota

S'gaw Karen girls of Khun Yuam District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand.Takeaway, CC BY-SA

Have you ever lived long enough in another country to see changes in your overall health? Or perhaps, you have noticed that after a friend moved to the U.S. his health seemed to deteriorate.

Many immigrants arrive in the U.S. healthy. But after living in...

Immigration to US Westernizes Asian guts

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