Got Milk?

[RoboPig]

Weird, I always though lactose intolerance was a rare occurrence that only affected a small portion of the population.

sigh. it does, because so many people have the required aryan blood! whats so hard to understand about that.

 

[Malba]

Can you be lactose intolerant and not know it? Because out of all the Asians I know, there are only two that are lactose intolerant.

 

[RoboPig]

Can you be lactose intolerant and not know it? Because out of all the Asians I know, there are only two that are lactose intolerant.

ONCE AGAIN! this is due to colonialist blood.

 

[Urederra]

Can you be lactose intolerant and not know it? Because out of all the Asians I know, there are only two that are lactose intolerant.

Do asians drink milk very often?

The ones I know don't. So, maybe they are but they don't know because they don't drink.

 

[MobBoss]

Scotch/Irish here and I have no problems with milk what-so-evah!

 

[Knowze Gungk]

I must have A high tolerance of lactose. I drink over a Litre of full cream Homogenized/pasteurized milk a day (about 10 litres a week, on average). It's one of my only intakes of sugar.

A few people have told me that my milk consumption is bad for me, but I just laugh at them, my body knows what it needs and there is not a dietitian in the world that knows better.

 

[bhsup]

English/German/French...basically a European mutt here, and I have no problem with milk whatsoever. As a matter of fact, I frequently drink it by the mug (big 32oz mugs) full.

My brother, on the other hand, is severely lactose intolerant.

 

[Mise]

So, when you say, "people who dont have aryan blood in them," what you really mean is, "no-one".

 

[Ansar]

Can you be lactose intolerant and not know it? Because out of all the Asians I know, there are only two that are lactose intolerant.

Um...duh? Maybe its because of the reason you are feeling sick after eating/drinking a dairy product?

 

[Bill3000]

Oh... that is great, let's say ethnicyty instead so we are polittically correct.

Not a matter of political correction; a matter of eliminating a false concept that does not work in biology and anthropology, other than the concept of race after it was socially constructed, which is history and social studies today. You're talking to someone who is a radical technocrat; I could care less about political correctness in science. I do care about accuracy, though.

 

[bad_ronald]

So, when you say, "people who dont have aryan blood in them," what you really mean is, "no-one".

He's using an archaic definition of Aryan, but not a racist one. 19th Century linguists believed that the proto-Indo-Europeans (not just the proto-Indo-Iranians) called themselves that. Max Müller even reasoned that Eire was a cognate. Most linguists today do not accept this since there isn't enough evidence, and by the time that any Western Indo-Europeans had writing or contact with a group that had writing, they already called themselves Greek, Celtic or Roman, etc. Though, there really isn't enough evidence to rule it out either; so, the term Indo-European is favored since it makes no suppositions about what they actually called themselves.

However, the notion that everyone has Indo-European genes is false, and I don't know why you'd make such a bold claim. They are the ancestors of many groups (all in Europe except the Basques, Finns, and Magyars) as well as some Indians and most Persians. It is probable that these three European groups have some Indo-European genes, but they were not likely the dominant contributors, and Semitic people probably have some Indo-European genes as well just due to proximity. But, barring recent admixture, sub-Saharan Africans, Mongoloids and Native Americans have no Indo-European genes (or Aryan blood, as robopig called it - which I'll stress is just archaic, not necessarily racist).

Not a matter of political correction; a matter of eliminating a false concept that does not work in biology and anthropology...

Please explain precisely why you believe that race is not a valid construct.

 

[toh6wy]

the people who lived in central asia and moved to India and Europe.

I imagine that most of the Earth's population has at least some of this type of Aryan heritage. But I have no idea why it would make a difference as to whether you can digest milk or whatever.

 

[Shaihulud]

I believe that lactose free milk is a damned marketing trick to make people pay more for removing something. I am chinese and is lactose tolerant, I doubt if I had a drop of aryan blood, unless it was way back in prehistory.

 

[RoboPig]

So, when you say, "people who dont have aryan blood in them," what you really mean is, "no-one".

no, some people who dont have enough (aryan blood was in their ancestors too long ago or aryan genes were not dominant.) cant drink milk. some people with aryan blood are lactose intolerant too.

However, the notion that everyone has Indo-European genes is false, and I don't know why you'd make such a bold claim. They are the ancestors of many groups (all in Europe except the Basques, Finns, and Magyars) as well as some Indians and most Persians. It is probable that these three European groups have some Indo-European genes, but they were not likely the dominant contributors, and Semitic people probably have some Indo-European genes as well just due to proximity. But, barring recent admixture, sub-Saharan Africans, Mongoloids and Native Americans have no Indo-European genes (or Aryan blood, as robopig called it - which I'll stress is just archaic, not necessarily racist).

they have a minute amount of aryan genes, due to white settlers and traders. also, i did not say that they were totally lactose intolerant, just that cow milk is not the preffered drink since it is harder for their bodies to process it.

 

[Narz]

I get bad stomachaches from milk, but that doesent stop me from drinking it. Or any other dairy product.

That's how I used to feel. I had milk and/or cheese with almost every meal. Eventually I found out I was allergic to it and that helped give me the motavation to cut it out. I felt so much better than only once did I try it again (had a big piece of melted cheeder). It tasted how I remembered but I felt lousy all over again and that was that.

If you really like milk you could always try the Rice milk or Oat milk or Almond milk they sell at health food stores (soy milk is popular but IMO soy products are less than ideal foods, though probably still better than dairy and certainly better for the animals and ecology).

Can you be lactose intolerant and not know it? Because out of all the Asians I know, there are only two that are lactose intolerant.

I was lactose intolerant for many years and didn't know it. I first started having problems when drinking a lot of milk at age 15 but I didn't find out I had an allergy until 22.

Also, beyond being allergic to the milk sugar (lactose), many are also allergic to the milk protein casien.

I imagine Asians probably wouldn't react well to eating lots of dairy because it's not part of their traditional diet. Except those of Mongol decent because the Mongols used a lot of dairy in their diets.

Still, the quality of milk today (in industrialized countries) is so poor I wouldn't recommend drinking it to anyone. Again, there is tons of info at notmilk.com and more info between the difference between pastuerized milk and raw milk at the Weston Price foundation website : realmilk.com.

 

[Shaihulud]

no, some people who dont have enough (aryan blood was in their ancestors too long ago or aryan genes were not dominant.) cant drink milk. some people with aryan blood are lactose intolerant too.

Then how did you get "people who dont have aryan blood in them, cannot drink cows milk after puberty". Doesn't this imply that there is no connecion between lactose tolerance and Aryans?

 

[Rambuchan]

I think you'll find that Africans and Asians drink different kinds of milk because they have different kinds of livestock. For example in India you have lots of Buffalo, and not so many Jersey cows. So when you drink tea or masala chai there, it is made with buffalo milk typically. In Africa, likewise, plenty of buffalo and goats, not some many Shetland cows. This is not to say that these people drop dead when drinking European cows milk. I've been doing pretty well drinking Euro-milkies nearly all my life. This is the plain explanation and no kind of racism / racial profiling is needed to explain this.

There are also different reactions to different substances in different genetic groups. Big deal.

 

[Narz]

Right, believe it or not more people drink goat's milk than cows. ASAIK goat's milk is less allergenic than cow's I suppose because we are more similar to goats than cows.

 

[Aramazd]

Check out this link for fun information about milk : http://notmilk.com

This site doesn't sound real. Dioxin in Ben and Jerry's and milk causing autism and ADD is crazy. This sounds like a crazy pro-vegan website. All it does is demonize meat and dairy. Maybe if there was another site that backed this up I might believe it.

 

[Yom]

ONCE AGAIN! this is due to colonialist blood.

Um...I'm 100% Ethiopian (no mixing) and I'm notorious for drinking milk in my family (I actually don't know anyone who's lactose intolerant, I don't think).