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...