Lactose Intolerance in USA but not Europe or China
Fei Chen
I grew up drinking milk in China, but when I moved to the US I discovered
I was "lactose intolerant", (but I could eat cheese on a pizza). However
when I moved to the UK, I re-discovered that I could eat all kinds of
cheese, milk, heavy cream without any ill effects. Last summer I went back
to the States, and out of habit (formed here in the UK) I drank a cup of
milk without thinking, and digestive problems followed immediately.
Is this a well documented phenomenon? It's been puzzling me for a long
time. Today there is an article on cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/13/lactose.reut/index.html
that says 90% of all Asians are lactose intolerant. How can this be true?
When I was growing up in China I drank milk all the time and actually had
never heard of such a thing as lactose intolerant. Certainly everyone I
knew drank milk without problems.
Are we talking about different kinds of cow/milk here?
Thanks for any information, I'd appreciate it if you would cc me any
response.
Cheers,
fei
Kevin and Sue
Like the lactose stuff they sell to be put in milk products. This is
just an uneducated guess....sue
Naomi and Marc Lavine
each of the countries as this will affect the milk they produce. There was
an interesting and amusing article I read how the coffee shops in England
had to explain to their customers why the froth on their cappucino wasn't so
frothy. It had to do with the time it took the Jersey cows to adjust from
their summer diets of grass to their supplemented winter diets, which for a
short period affected the consistency of the milk..
"Kevin and Sue" <kjmu...@home.com> wrote in message
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Craig Bruner
society is, sadly, dominated by medical scince and an allopathic view which
"locks us" into certain health problems which may or may in fact not be true
at all. One of those being the area of allergies. You will for instance
hear most medical doctors answer to food allergies being that there is
really no cure, but we can treat you with drugs. And regretfully that seems
to be the case more and more with many different ailments. And we of course
allow ourselves to be brainwashed by this underlying philosophy in many
aspects of our health. In Europe and China you have a more holistic
viewpoint (and much healthier people to). So you have to screen your
thinking process when you hear claims made from "our side" of the
Atlantic.
As far as milk intolerance is concerned, it may be that you were in fact
lactose intolerant at one time. A simple way to tell the difference, short
of having a "scratch" test or being tested kinesthetically, would be to
take a lactase supplement. If you react you are probably allergic to milk
rather that lactose intolerant. Keep in mind that the body communicates
with itself thru vibrational frequencies. The vibrational frequency of milk
is different than cheese even though it is made from milk. The body can
recognize the difference. Having said that it is however not uncommon to be
allergic to both for obvious reasons. Not necessarily because one is made
from the other but because the vibrational frequences overlap. (I myself use
to be allergic to milk. However after receiving an NAET treatment I am no
longer allergic to it. But since I also deveoped an allergy to cheese but
have yet to be cleared of that substance, I am still allergic to it.)
However allergies to calcium are also a common but sometimes misdiagnosed
allergy. Many people find that when they are cleared of calcium their "milk
allergies" go away.
Fei Chen <fe...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote in message
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Thomas Mueller
>allergy. Many people find that when they are cleared of calcium their "milk
>allergies" go away.
Craig Bruner, you speak of allergies to calcium. Vegetables such as collards,
kale, mustard greens and others contain calcium. Would somebody allergic to
calcium get a reaction from eating such vegetables?
Wu Tian Shun
ShangHai. i read your article. i may tell you that now a woman
teacher of English in my university is LI not LI lived in English
after drinking milk.i see the immune system of the body could be some
changeable in differant place.As you known, Chinese people just drink
milk in recent years and LI is only about less 10 per cent. i hope you
can read my article "Ways to treat Lactose Intolerant". i think it is
useful for you. At present West Medical has not any good method for
treating LI. i am gald to help you LI. Tomorrow i will spend the
winter holidays. i will go back at 20th Feb. Wu Tian Shun my
e-mail is ; w...@libserver.lib.ecnu.edu.cn