Comments on: Map of Milk Consumption & Lactose Intolerance Around the World https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/ Sat, 17 May 2014 09:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: kaharla https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/#comment-33728 Sat, 17 May 2014 09:48:00 +0000 https://foodbeast.com/content/?p=129896#comment-33728 There is a HUGE difference between being lactose intolerant and being allergic to milk. Intolerance means your body can’t break down lactose, the main sugar in milk, so your gut bacteria do it for you, producing gas as a byproduct and leading to all the nasty symptoms.
Allergic reactions are usually much more dangerous than lactose intolerance. People with a milk allergy are typically allergic to caseins, the main proteins in milk, not to lactose.

]]> By: Justin Mulvey https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/#comment-33724 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:47:00 +0000 https://foodbeast.com/content/?p=129896#comment-33724 90% of china’s population is NOT allergic to lactose. It’s pretty hard to have an allergy against a disaccharide. They can’t lyse the sugar, and bacteria digest it. This is not an allergy.

]]> By: Terra Magnum Imperium https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/#comment-33723 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:31:00 +0000 https://foodbeast.com/content/?p=129896#comment-33723 Before age 7 almost anyone can drink milk, around that time the Lactose tolerant gene is turned off for most people

]]> By: Eli https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/#comment-33722 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:47:00 +0000 https://foodbeast.com/content/?p=129896#comment-33722 Sources, anyone? The percentage at least for Spain cannot be right.

]]> By: William https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/#comment-33718 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:31:00 +0000 https://foodbeast.com/content/?p=129896#comment-33718 Do you have any sources? I would love to read them! 🙂

]]> By: Eugene Kan https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/#comment-33715 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:57:00 +0000 https://foodbeast.com/content/?p=129896#comment-33715 Lactose tolerancy is a genetic mutation hence why Asians are largely unable to process it.

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1376
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Scientists-identify-lactose-intolerance-mutation

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