Thanks to all the responses to my intro/questions!! - Lactose

[Guest guest]

, ERB <bakwin wrote:

> Most people in the world are lactose intolerant from

> birth.

 

Actually, this is NOT true. If babies were lactose intolerant from

birth, they would not be able to drink human breast milk, the milk

specifically made for them, which contains lactose. But our lack of

lactose intolerance in infancy in no way indicates that we should have

the milk of another species.

 

--Allison

(Frequent reader; seldom poster; mom to Wilson, 2 1/2 and vegan)

[Guest guest]

this should probably just be amended to, most people in the world are

lactose intolerant upon weaning. it's only when we force our bodies to

continue processing lactose that we continue creating the enzyme to digest

it that rightfully should be gone once we aren't nursing anymore. and it's

because so many people really DON'T create that enzyme properly that so many

people are lactose intolerant and don't even know it (like the widely

accepted medical belief that one of the leading undiagnosed causes of IBS is

lactose intolerance).