Posted on 02/25/2010 8:11:01 AM PST by decimon
Blood types have only a general relationship with any of this.
A+, in fact, is found with a high frequency in Europeans and Sa'ami (these two groups have a 15,000 minimum genetic separation). Chippewa Indians also have a high A+ occurrence.
Otherwise A+ ain't no thang!
I’m guessing with women lactose tolerance may vary with hormonal cycles and pregnancy.
Men have hormone shifts too. It’s just not so easy to figure it out.
I praise the day I discovered Lactose free milk!
I checked it out. Almond Breeze is available at the local supermarket and it does have a good amount of calcium and Vitamin D (the two nutrients I am most interested in). Going to have to add that to my shopping list for next week.
Thank you for the information.
It is very uncomfortable bloating and cramping, and with all of that propellant, it's difficult to control the diarrhea.
You’re welcome! I love it because now I can eat cereal again.
ANY inflammation is an immune system response. Even the swelling around a cut or bruise. If an inflammatory response involves the digestive system, then it’s also a digestive system response (and the full response often involves more than the immune system).
As for my kitty, he couldn’t care less about the shape of food — anything that’s dry cat food, he’ll eagerly dive into, from cheapo X-shaped Friskies to small pellet-shaped Hill’s Science Diet. Flavor makes no difference to him either. He didn’t hesitate for a second when I poured this new food into his bowl, even though he’s never in his life encountered a grain-free, potato-containing cat food. Small dry brown things rattling into bowl is his trigger to eat. If I poured brown aquarium gravel into his bowl, he’d probably eat that too. But offer him a bowl of human tunafish from a just-opened can, and he just gives you a perplexed look, like you’d set a brick down in front in front of him.
I’ve started to seriously suspect that he may have no sense of smell. A couple of weeks ago, in desperation, I started an intensive effort to get him to eat Gerber’s chicken baby food. Though he’d walk away from it if I stuck it under his nose, I found that if I forcibly pried his mouth open and placed a dab on his tongue, THEN he’d get interested in eating what was in the bowl (sometimes not until the 2nd or 3rd forced dab, though, and oddly never seeming to associate the food with the negative experience of the forced tasting). This went on for about 10 days, and now FINALLY, he actually eats the stuff when it’s just presented to him in a bowl. In fact yesterday he started begging for it. Bummer, because it was just a few days ago that I started the grain free food, and just a couple of days ago that I was able to confirm that it 100% solves his loose stools problem (and will almost certainly solve his weight loss problem too).
I still can’t interest him in Fancy Feast, which all my other cats love. But I haven’t tried the forced tasting method yet. I may need to do that. He was perfectly healthy for many years on dry food alone, but as cats get into senior years, it becomes more important to be able to get supplements and medications into them by mixing it into wet food. He’s 12 now, so it’s soon likely to be an issue. Gerber’s is a great base, but requires a lot of laborious supplementation to be nutritionally complete for a cat. I’ve used it as the main food for a super-senior cat (20+) and it worked wonders, but I don’t want to deal with the big row of supplements every day for many many years (which I certainly hope my 12 year old has ahead of him).
Whatever. I don’t really understand your complete refusal to ever be wrong about anything. Food allergy and food intolerance are not the same thing, regardless. Take it up with the people who define these things.
Sheesh.
thanks decimon
Agreed. And there is a BIG difference between lactose intolerant and a true allergy to cow’s milk. Having the latter, I can tell everyone that it is quite possible and not difficult to get all the nutrients without the milk.
Thanks Judith. I have a niece and a nephew who had true cow’s milk allergies. They grew up drinking soy (I thought it smelled to gross to even try!) and seem to be doing fine, as they are both adults now. I think a lot of people don’t really know what the difference between a food intolerance and an allergy are because I think the media often uses them interchangably.
Soy it was, for me. Since it was in the late 40s, I was given soybean meal, with cod liver oil and orange juice. At the time, the milk allergy was life-threatening (I was 3 mos old) and the soy I was given still smells good to me today, even though other people detest it.
They do not!
Their children suffer cognitive impairment too.
Elderly veges skin is covered with 'liver' spots from lack of carnitine, and they all have weak joints.
You are not describing the vegetarians I know.
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