My mom's side has a lot of Norwegian in it, and my mom has had at least one glass of milk every day of her life, as near as I can tell. She doesn't have a problem with any of it. I kind of stopped drinking it (still eating cheese and stuff) and developed problems. So staying used to it matters, I guess.
There's a lot of fuss about lactose intolerance here -- I'm guessing some of it is because we don't get our milk the way we used to. Joseph Lister was able to keep milk drinkable in a glass container for a year, because he kept out all the bacteria. But that took a kind of careful preparation that just doesn't happen on a day to day basis.
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Date: 2007-03-31 06:03 pm (UTC)There's a lot of fuss about lactose intolerance here -- I'm guessing some of it is because we don't get our milk the way we used to. Joseph Lister was able to keep milk drinkable in a glass container for a year, because he kept out all the bacteria. But that took a kind of careful preparation that just doesn't happen on a day to day basis.