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		Nutrition is personal. Identical foods responds differently in individuals (meta.com)
		3 points by zerotosixty on Nov 20, 2015 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

nyc111 on Nov 20, 2015 [–]

The reaction to food is related greatly to gut flora. It seems like they collected samples of feces but I'm not clear how much weight they gave to the role of microbiome in digestion.

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