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From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: lactose intolerance
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Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 13:36:02 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 13:36:02 1984
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	Lactose intolerance is the result of insufficient lactase --an 
enzyme most of us have early in life, but which decreases as we get older
(and in fact nearly disappears in MOST people).

	I drank LOTS of milk until it was discovered that I had a lactose
intolerance.  Like others on the net, I was diagnosed as having a nervous
stomach.  So nervous, that the doctor decided I had an ulcer and operated!!
Long after they cut my vagus nerve (although no ulcer was found), I finally
found out what the real problem was.

	In addition to intolerance being widespread among the Mongolian and
Negroid races, I understand that American Indians suffer the same intolerance.
The problem is also common among Southern Europeans, as someone else pointed
out.