Posted on 05/26/2009 9:03:40 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
For many, the mere mention of milk will be enough to invoke memories of nausea, bloating, cramps, diarrhea, and perhaps in some cases, jibes and taunts about “wind” and bad breath. Some will have undergone medical tests that diagnosed the cause as “ Lactose intolerance ”.
Lacking the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the milk sugar lactose (see box), they are unable to digest milk, whereas lactose-tolerant people can. Others, though, might still be unaware that they are “deficient” in lactase, not realizing that drinking milk causes their feelings of nausea, etc.[1]
For many years, lactose intolerance was regarded as abnormal, and was used by many as evidence of human evolution. As a measure of evolutionary “advancement”, milk-drinking seemed to fit the stereotype perfectly. Pale-skinnned northern Europeans usually retained full intestinal lactase activity into adulthood, in stark contrast to the world’s darker-skinned peoples who are only able to digest milk as infants or young children. Well, that’s the way the story went.
However, “lactose deficiency” in adults is not in fact abnormal, but the norm! Research has shown that...
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(Cow’s) milk is for calves.
You have a strange doctor to say to never drink milk. I love Milk and it has never bothered me at all. My great Grandmother drank it with every meal until she died at 104. I guess the milk killed her. :)
Yet some human populations have evolved the ability to digest milk into adulthood, and this is apparently a beneficial trait in Northern European and some cattle herding African populations; as it has apparently gone from the mutation of a single individual within a population, the the majority genotype of those populations.
Why is lactose persistence present in such high prevalence among populations where milk was available for drinking if drinking milk conferred no advantage?
For most of my life I was able to consume dairy products with no, shall we say, “side effects” but that ended in my late 40’s. It was so bad that I avoided dairy completely. I recently discovered a product that works all the time. Acidophilus Pearls. They contain probiotics that enable your digestive system to handle the lactose. What makes them different is they survive the path through stomach acid and deliver the good bacteria into the small intestine where they perform their magic. Another product worth looking at is Lactagen.
Well here is another way to look at that without the misrepresentation, and bias.
The mutation which results in lactase persistence is one of the canonical examples of recent human evolution driven by natural selection. It looks as if over the past 10,000 years several populations have developed this trait independently due to selective pressures, in particular the nutritional benefit of adult digestion of the lactose sugars in milk. The fact that in northern European populations where ~95% of people are lactase persistent there is a difference in body mass which tracks this trait is intriguing, as it suggests the reasons why this new ability was driven to fixation so powerfully. In the pre-modern world extra caloric intake would probably have been a difference between life and death, and body fat has also been related to female fertility.
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2009/05/lactase_persistence_correlates.php
Ya know, you shouldn’t use a dumbass pseudo-science writer’s article to show anti-Darwinist thinking if the article includes inheritable genetic mutations that are beneficial to the offspring.
It’s just not right..
I love watching their tap dance on these things.
Self contradiction is a mark of great intellect you know....
But watch out for the type II diabetes issues. Milk can nurture the organisms that bring it on.
Hello retread!
How are things at DC?
Thanks for the ping!
Because you're an ignorant troll here to stop the flow of information that educates the public? - Becaude your agenda is failing now because of the internet?
Even if he gets retreaded a million jillion times?
Bummer!
No, it is not. It leads to type II diabetes in a substantial portion of that population.
Another retread!
What happened, did a tire store crash land on freerepublic?
“...milk is great.”
Lactase is an enzyme that is naturally in milk. Pasturization kills the lactase. We get Real (Raw) Milk, straight from the cow. I drink gallons of it because I like it, and it causes me no distress. We have shared this Real Milk with friends who are “lactose intolerant” (for get the article’s ‘pc’ terminology) and they generally have no problem with it once the get used to the idea of drinking milk again.
Pasturization is bad. More disease is passed through pasturized milk than through raw milk. Real (raw) Milk is still good for cooking etc after it sours - hold your nose and dump it out if store-bought pasturized milk goes sour. There are naturally many good probiotic bacteria thriving in Real Milk that go belly-up in pasturization.
I just finished an ice cream cone (homemade ice cream) made out of raw cream and raw eggs. We do not cook the ice cream before freezing it. Very healthy, and I have ice cream most every night (usually a bowl full, not just a cone), but do not gain weight because of eating it. Butter fat is the best natural source for lipase, and my ice cream made with Real Cream is loaded with lipase. Lipase also helps keep arteries clog-free.
Last year I was sick for a couple of months, and lived on Real Milk - at least a gallon a day. I owe a lot toward my recovery to the milk diet. My milk consumption is down some now - usually not more than 2 qts a day.
That's when I became intolerant as well. Must have been sick hundreds of times before I caught onto the real reason, which was clouded by another disorder. Fortunately, any of the supplements do work for me now.
“(Cow’s) milk is for calves.”
Caves fed pasturized milk from their own morther die.
Drink Real Milk.
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