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Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi

Posted by samzenpus on from the weed-eaters dept.

cremeglace writes "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."

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  1. Re:Ammo for Racism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    just what we need, more of this bullshit talk that we are all the same.

    We are not!

    Different races have different abilities due to evolution. I know that evolution is not a popular subject in the USA because of your Christian brainwashing.
    We should not hide the fact that we are different. We need to acknowledge our differences and use them to humanities full advantage.