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Re:America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:49AM (#21977609)
> There's evidence my ancestors have been drinking milk for at least 10,000 years

Most humans can't digest lactose after infancy [1].

For those who can, we have limited research around the quantity in and frequency with which their ancestors consumed whole milk. Comparisons to modern milk, produced by stressed-out cows bred for volume and fed god-knows-what, are tenuous.

[1] https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance

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Re:America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt by fiblye on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @07:41AM (#21979376)
Some people die from being near peanut dust. That doesn't mean nuts are unhealthy to those who can eat them.

Even those who are included in "lactose intolerant" populations actually have no trouble chugging a huge glass of milk everyday along with some cheese and yogurt. Intolerance charts like you'd find on Wikipedia would lead you to suggest east Asians can't consume milk at all without discomfort, yet yogurt for breakfast, milk during lunch, a milk tea before dinner and ice cream after isn't even the slightest bit uncommon and causes no trouble for most people.

That some people can consume liters a day (or gallons, for those trying to gain muscle fast) seems to indicate that some people evolved to be fine with dairy.

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Re:America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt by masonic on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:10AM (#21978026) 

  Most humans can't digest lactose after infancy [1].
That source: "Approximately 65 percent of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy."

"Reduced ability" != "Can't"

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Re:America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt by Fricken on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:09AM (#21977711)
Nutritional science has gotten a lot of things badly wrong, so it plays second fiddle to how I feel when I add or remove something from my diet. I've tried on a few occasions to cut dairy from my diet. It was sub-optimal.
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Re:America's Biggest Milk Producers Are Going Bankrupt by gsich on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @03:52AM (#21978207)
>Most humans can't digest lactose after infancy [1].

Here (Europe) most can. So it's normal to digest lactose here. In other words, yes percentage wise you are correct. But is's not equally distributed.

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