Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick

Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by toasterlovin on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:36AM (#12813601)

I'm guessing that ratio is probably different for people on HN, since, as fluent English speakers, they're more likely to be descended from Europeans.

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by vidarh on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:44AM (#12814091)

It is, but it's still significant. 13% for whites in the US but rising to near 90% for some ethnic groups.

Europe varies greatly, with by far the highest level of tolerance in Northern Europe (I'm Norwegian, and I didn't even know about lactose intolerance until I was in the 20's - it just wasn't something that became a subject until we were exposed to more immigrants as while it existed in Norway before that it was <5%), with lactose intolerance increasing to well above 20% in many other European countris.

In any case the advice to down vast quantities as milk isn't universally applicable anywhere.

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Re:Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getti... by TheCoelacanth on Friday October 28, 2016 @09:55AM (#12815796)

I would be very surprised if HN didn't also a large number of people of Asian descent who are much less likely to tolerate lactose.

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