[Greg F]

Yet in Sweden and Denmark, the gene that makes the milk-digesting enzyme lactase remains active, so almost everyone can drink fresh milk, explaining why dairy farming is more common in Europe than in the Mediterranean and Africa, Harpending says.

Life without milkshakes! Eat your wheat curds, my African FRiends. I will suck down another chocolate shake and my aryan tummy will digest it all! Lactase power!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Most ‘lactose intolerant’ people can drink a glass or two milk without side effects. It’s when they drink a lot that there is indigestion.

[Skywalk]

They really messed up the science.

By most accounts, I think scientists now believe that the only reason the enzyme is lost in ADULTS of non-Northern European ancestry (though not all) is because the sources of dairy around them were not sufficient and thus they STOPPED DRINKING MILK.

If a kid is raised on milk, there is little chance he will be lactose intolerant(at least not in any serious way.)

It has to do with milk sources around those people and now millenia later, they never worked to build those sources (people develop different food and nutrition strategies) and now they believe they ‘can’t’ drink animal milk.

It’s just not true.