>They're just not nearly as widespread as some health food fans would have you believe,
Among adult white middle-upperclass coasties of mostly to entirely central european descent.
But America isn't just white people anymore. The doctors say lactose intolerance is around 90% for asians and 80% for american black people.
Its worth considering that American was like 90% lactose tolerant white people before the 60s immigration reforms, but now is only like 60% lactose tolerant white people, and dropping. The majority of children today are lactose intolerant to some level or another.
Like the wikipedia says "most lactose-intolerant people can tolerate a certain level of lactose in their diets without ill effects" But its very much like the Olestra debacle. You probably won't get sick from eating small amounts of undigestible oils, but you absolutely won't get sick if you don't eat them at all, and america being what it is, we have people who insist on binge eating and the digestive consequences of that can be quite gross. Better off just staying away and not eating it at all.
Conceptually, drinking the breast milk of another species on a regular basis is just weird, anyway.
Among adult white middle-upperclass coasties of mostly to entirely central european descent.
But America isn't just white people anymore. The doctors say lactose intolerance is around 90% for asians and 80% for american black people.
Its worth considering that American was like 90% lactose tolerant white people before the 60s immigration reforms, but now is only like 60% lactose tolerant white people, and dropping. The majority of children today are lactose intolerant to some level or another.
Like the wikipedia says "most lactose-intolerant people can tolerate a certain level of lactose in their diets without ill effects" But its very much like the Olestra debacle. You probably won't get sick from eating small amounts of undigestible oils, but you absolutely won't get sick if you don't eat them at all, and america being what it is, we have people who insist on binge eating and the digestive consequences of that can be quite gross. Better off just staying away and not eating it at all.
Conceptually, drinking the breast milk of another species on a regular basis is just weird, anyway.