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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by gingerjoos on Monday October 29, 2012 @01:37AM (#4711232)
+1 to that. Among all the people I've ever known (in India) only 2 people are lactose intolerant. Indian society has, historically, placed a lot of importance on the cow and milk. Indian mythology has rich references to milk and other dairy products for eg. Samudra Manthan [1], Krishna the cowherd [2]. If we were to consider the level of medicine practiced in India (see [3] and [4], for eg.), one would imagine that any real problem of such widespread nature would be heavily studied and discussed about.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samudra_manthan

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Krishna_with_flute.jpg

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charaka_Samhita

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta_Samhita

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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by kingsley_20 on Monday October 29, 2012 @02:02AM (#4711274)
This is an American usage of the word "asian", which excludes subcontinentals.

Interestingly, my wife and I grew up on milk in India (to adulthood), but found ourselves mildly lactose-intolerant to American milk.

Edit: changed "includes" to "excludes".

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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by whatusername on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:12AM (#4711771)
And Australian. "Asian" to me has always meant: China/Japan/Malaysia/Indonesia/Korea(s)/Thailand/Vietnam/Phillipines/PNG/Timor/Laos/Cambodia and maybe Burma.
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