[PatrickHenry]

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Darwinian medicine. Something new to think about. Everyone be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

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[ARCADIA]

Darwinian medicine.

That will be the brave new world of the 21th century.

[keithtoo]

Most Chinese are lactose intolerant and China doesn't fit this scenario at all. So I guess Darwinianism doesn't apply to 1/5 of humanity.

[crazyhorse691]

Never heard of this new medicical discipline before. My first impression is it is perilously close to Lamarckian Evolution. Guess it is time to google.

[KarlInOhio]

I saw Darwinian medicine and I expected it to deal with treating people who used fluorescent tubes and gasoline to make light sabers.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Pure and unadulterated BS. Many peoples of equatorial Africa for centuries have had milk as a main source of their diet. Some fermented it, mixed it with cereal grains, some still today relish a mixture of cow's blood and milk, which they have drank since time immemorial.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I don't know about all of this, but I am descended from Scottish, English, French, and German ancestors, all of whom are part of the dairying peoples, and I am lactose intolerant, as is my father, and at least one of my nieces.

[Xenophobic Alien]

Pure and Simple B.S.

My family is from Poland, They came to America and settled in Wisconsin, owned dairy farms. If I drink a glass of milk I cramp and (other things I would rather not mention) for days.

[etcetera]

A similar Darwinian explanantion should apply to the effects of alcohol on Native Americans.

[tubebender]

I developed a milk intolerance several years ago. My wife fed me Acidofilus milk for a while and Bam...I was able to drink whole milk again

[fire and forget]

Fascinating. What a stunning reproof of ID. Their already hyper-strained arguments must now be further strained by the insistence that this only suggests God "created" different groups' ability to metabolize milk according to the groups' proximities to dairy-friendly regions.

[JimSEA]

A new Cornell University study finds that it is primarily people whose ancestors came from places where dairy herds could be raised safely and economically, such as in Europe, who have developed the ability to digest milk.

I live in Southeast Asia where, at least, the majority of my friends and in-laws are lactose intolerant. To my knowledge, Tibet and Mongolia are the exceptions to the no milk products tendency of this part of the world. It would interest me to know the results of such a study in those areas. I know that in Chiang Mai, while people love ice cream, most cannot handle much and many cannot handle any. BTW the Dairies and cheese makers are all German.

[TASMANIANRED]

What about the Zulu's that drink blood.

[GovernmentShrinker]

if researchers can better understand why a symptom occurs, such as a fever, runny nose or allergy, they can better evaluate whether it is best to eliminate or tolerate it

People would do well to apply this concept to the little stuff too. Take sunglasses, for instance. When the sun is so bright that it's making you squint uncomfortably, all those millennia of evolution are trying to tell you to get out of the sun. So what do people do? Put on sunglasses, of course, and continue to hang out in excessively strong sunlight, that gives them sunburn, skin cancer, and sometimes heatstroke. I have one pair of sunglasses, and it lives in the glove compartment of my car, to be worn only when safety requires it. Other than that, if the sunlight is uncomfortably strong, I relocate myself.

[GovernmentShrinker]

humans are the only mammals that drink milk as adults

Some of my kitties didn't get that memo :-)

[GloriaJane]

I know the pasteurization process is only bringing milk to a boil, so you wouldn't think that would make a difference. But it does with me.

I had no problem drinking all the fresh milk I could hold when I spent a year on my grandparents dairy farm. It's only after the milk is processed that my body has a problem with it.

So where would I fit in on their darwinist scale of things if I can tolerate milk before it's pasteurized but not be able to tolerate if after the process?

[Twinkie]

I have American Indian ancestry, but also European ancestry like a lot of people in the world. I evidently inherited the Asian connection since I am lactose intolerant (I still drink a little milk and pay for it a lot). This is just simply inherited stuff from actually near relatives (in the line of great grandparents), so making it a far distant evolution thing is sort of off base. Of course, we inherit genetic stuff from our relatives all the way back to Adam. I don't see Darwin in here at all.

[ZULU]

My ancestors come from Europe and get these terrible cramps whenever I hear Democrats talking.

Does this mean Democrats drink more milk than Republicans?

[I got the rope]

I am of Comanche descent...and very lactose intolerant.