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**Lillie_Steins** · 06-09-2012, 02:45 PM

Lactose intolerance is NOT caused by consumption of milk by adults. If one continues to eat or drink a food item they should get used to that food and there should not be any problem is handling it. The enzyme (lactase) that digests lactose depletes as we age and that is the reason we develop lactose intolerance.

Obviously man, drinking milk does not by itself cause intolerance. Babies are drinking milk all the time, and almost all are lactose tolerant. I think I did not phrase my statement properly.

However, if adults did not try drinking milk, they would not exhibit lactose intolerance. This is a condition exacerbated by the unnatural behavior of drinking milk in adulthood. There is only one mammalian species which does that, humans.

No amount of drinking milk will make the body get used to it. It will not put back the lactase producing gene in the affected individual, only a random mutation would.

06-09-2012, 02:45 PM	#30
Lillie_Steins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 4,508 Senior Member	Lactose intolerance is NOT caused by consumption of milk by adults. If one continues to eat or drink a food item they should get used to that food and there should not be any problem is handling it. The enzyme (lactase) that digests lactose depletes as we age and that is the reason we develop lactose intolerance. Obviously man, drinking milk does not by itself cause intolerance. Babies are drinking milk all the time, and almost all are lactose tolerant. I think I did not phrase my statement properly. However, if adults did not try drinking milk, they would not exhibit lactose intolerance. This is a condition exacerbated by the unnatural behavior of drinking milk in adulthood. There is only one mammalian species which does that, humans. No amount of drinking milk will make the body get used to it. It will not put back the lactase producing gene in the affected individual, only a random mutation would.
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