On 2019-09-29 6:08 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 11:32:24 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>>
>> Well maybe most of the planet doesn't consume all that much milk.
>> There seems to be something of a racial factor to lactose
>> intolerance. Europeans tend to have a relatively low rate of
>> lactose intolerance, about 18-26%. Only about 4% of Swedes are
>> lactose intolerant. Africans and Asian have rates of 75-95%.
>
> I can build up a tolerance to milk by establishing a colony of
> lactose loving bacteria in my gut and maintaining the gut-bugs by
> drinking milk daily but there's not much point in doing that. Most of
> Asia is not into milk but I can drink/eat fermented milk products
> just fine. I love Calpis.
>

I can handle lactose free milk and small amounts of yogurt. Kefir is
like a tonic. Maybe northern Europeans all have those gut bugs in their
system. Maybe it is naturally produced enzymes. The long and short of
is that northern Europeans can tolerate lactose better than most others.