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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.med
Subject: Re: Scald milk? (pasteurization considered harmful)
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Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 20:47:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  5 20:47:53 1984
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I find it hard to believe that our digestive systems can discriminate between
pasteurized and unpasteurized milk.  What does it mean to "have a handle"
on the milk proteins?  Are there studies which suggest that gastric and
intestinal juices do not break down pasteurized milk as well?  And, in any
case, is this a significant event in human nutrition?  What are the
"digestive problems" which this might cause?  Lactose intolerance is a
well characterized syndrome for selected people--should we re-introduce
the spread of tuberculosis and other unsavory diseases because of this
suspected intolerance (which mustn't affect TOO many people, if it
exists at all, or we'd see many more cases of these "digestive problems.")

Arguments like these give me indigestion, because THEY'RE so hard to
swallow!
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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